Even as the American obesity epidemic swells, the French eat wonderful creams, cheeses, and baguettes. Remarkably, these sumptuous foods produce a nation of thin people (8% obesity rate) with longer lives and healthier hearts. Dr. Clower - a neurophysiologist and neuroscience historian who spent two years as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences in Lyon, France - makes the basic point that the same diet that keeps them thin and healthy can work for us as well.