Read Rebecca Weisser's story on how traditional French and Japanese diets are changing and how this affects the obesity rates of their populations.

	JUST when it seemed the French had won the war -- the diet war, that is -- with a slim little book gloating that French women don't get fat, a challenge has been mounted. Another slim volume by an equally slim author and her husband is mounting an assault on the international best-seller lists with a claim that nor do Japanese women gain weight. For the full story click on this link
Fat fighters: Mireille Guiliano, top, who put the French case for slimness, and Naomi Moriyama, above, who made similar claims on behalf of Japanese women