Expensive clothes with inappropriate or inexpensive shoes may send an unflattering message.

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.

Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.