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It seems obvious: eat healthy foods in moderation, drink in moderation, and maintain your weight. But it's not obvious, at least not to the vast majority of Americans who are overweight, and Dr. Tedd Goldfinger, a Cardiologist in Arizona, has the answer in a book called The Wine Lover's Healthy Weight Loss Plan (McGraw-Hill, $16.95).

I think a lot of other food lovers would agree with me when I say that dieting is boring and restrictive. It's like being told you can only play certain chords on the piano if you're a pianist, or that you have to run the same route every day if you're a jogger.

That's where Goldfinger's plan is genius: he offers a dieting solution in the Mediterranean diet, based on Italian, Greek, Provencal, and Spanish cuisines that's designed to pair with wine. The foods aren't just good for you, they're good too. Goldfinger channels the author of The French Paradox, Dr. Serge Renaud, who discovered how healthy the French are in spite of eating buttered croissants and foie gras. Why? Wine, of course.

A while back I gave you the recipe for James Bond's Scrambled Eggs, and that got me thinking if there was a site devoted to all the other stuff that 007 likes to eat and drink. And there is.

You can find out the recipe for his martini, of course (though did his drink really contain both vodka and gin?) and find out how to serve caviar the right way. You can even get some idea on throwing a James Bond theme party and take a Bond food quiz.

The site has to be updated though. There's still a picture of Pierce Brosnan on the front page.