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Byline: Eve Macsweeney
American women seem to have two modes: sitting or spinning." So teases Mireille Guiliano in her irresistibly titled high-end how-to book, French Women Don't Get Fat (Knopf). The president and CEO of Cliquot, Inc. in New York-many a restorative glass of this brand of champagne is prescribed in these pages-the French-born Guiliano was apparently moved to divulge the secrets of her snake-hipped sisters after observing the rat-on-a-treadmill misery of friends and colleagues over here. Frenchwomen don't believe in "diets," it transpires, although, under duress, they will devote a few days to the magical power of leeks. Beyond that, it's moderation all the way, "recasting" the mind to eat less and savor ...