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We interrupt your Thanksgiving dinner with the latest news from France..."So as Americans snap up copies of Mireille Guiliano's "French Women Don't Get Fat" -- the best-selling primer on the Gallic secrets of small portions and long walks -- 42-year-old Crystelle Roux rolls her eyes. "I think French people actually eat very poorly," said the chubby research technician, who attended a recent Weight Watchers meeting in midtown Paris. "Before I enrolled in Weight Watchers, I was eating a lot of starch and hardly any vegetables...millions in France are ardent fans of cheeseburgers and fries. "MacDo," as the French call it, is the No. 1 franchise in France, with more than 1,000 outlets around the country."