“What ees thees? C’est impossible! When it comes to l’amour, ze candy, she is dandy, but ze liqueur, she is quickeur!”
Posted on 02/25/2009 1:58:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
TO the anger of the wine industry and disbelief of lovers of a good drop worldwide, the French Government has told its people to stop drinking wine.
The French Health Ministry has made alcohol one of the chief villains in a drive against cancer.
"The consumption of alcohol, and especially wine, is discouraged," say guidelines drawn from the findings of the National Cancer Institute.
A single glass of wine a day will raise the chance of contracting cancer by up to 168 per cent, claims the ministry's brochure.
Forget those 1980s findings that antioxidants in wine were good for health, according to the French experts. "Small daily doses of alcohol are the most harmful," institute president Dominique Maraninchi said. "There is no amount, however small, which is good for you."
Authorities elsewhere have been telling people in recent years to go dry if they want to stay healthy. But the advice was especially sobering, coming from the Government of France, where wine is part of life and the national heritage.
The pleasantly illustrated ministry brochure makes grim reading. The institute collated hundreds of international studies and summarised the relation between types of cancer with food, drink and lifestyle.
Apart from wine, the dangerous stuff includes red meat, charcuterie and salt.
A pave de rum-steak might not sound so mouth-watering after reading: "The risk of colon-rectal cancer rises by 29 per cent per 100g portion of red meat per day and 21 per cent per 50g portion of charcuterie."
SNIP
"This persecution of wine has to stop," said the General Association of Wine Producers.
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Ping!
Frog ping.
Whatever happened to Sarko?
First some wine is good for you. Then bad. Just like with eggs. No one can make up his mind. I’m just going to drink myself silly and let future-me worry about it
They can have my styroam cup of Franzia shiraz boxed wine when they can pry it from my cold dead fingers...
Mon Dieu!
This goes against most of the studies I’ve seen that say wine is good for you. WTH?
First, they came for my cigarettes...
Then, they came for my Bordeaux...
and my Cognac.....
A single glass of wine every day will increase your risk of cancer.
A single glass of wine every day will decrease your risk for heart disease.
Flip and coin and have a glass of wine.
“France bowing down to the muslims again...”
That was my first thought when I saw this.
Nowhere have I seen evidence that what is being posted here is true. Wine is one of the oldest beverages. Time, if nothing else, has shown that when drunken IN MODERATION that it has no harmful effects.
There are too many real life examples (especially in France of all places) of people that have had a glass of wine with their dinner their entire lives with no harmful effects. I can’t believe the French people would actually take this seiously.
Cheers!
Can’t survive cancer with a bad ticker. LOL!
There’s no science behind this - it’s driven by France’s ever growing Muslim community who will never view itself as part of the French society and in fact wants the destruction of France.
“What ees thees? C’est impossible! When it comes to l’amour, ze candy, she is dandy, but ze liqueur, she is quickeur!”
Well, I’m definitely gonna swear off charcuterie.......
Looks like economic warfare from here.
It’s France. They have no say over my Bourbon. They can keep their wine anyway, I’ll drink American if any, and that’s not much...
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