At most, two glasses per day! Campaign of the French government is not everybody's good earth

The new campaign of the French government as to what to do to excessive use of alcohol makes the tongue loose. A maximum of two glasses per day, not every day and ten per week: that is, many French are not.

An accompanying clip shows this time, not the collision of a drunk driver or someone on the ground being struck in a kroegruzie, but a man who, after a night out collapsed against a lamppost. His girlfriend calls the ambulance and when he is in a hospital bed, says the voice-over "if you drink more than two glasses per day, you increase the chances of strokes, cancer and high blood pressure'. Cheers.

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French less to drink. That sounds like political suicide, with all the weekly Yellow Vests on the streets because of expensive gasoline and too much government interference. the

President Emmanuel Macron must therefore be on eggs walk, despite the miserable figure of 41,000 fellow annually by the bottle breaking. “Without that, we are more than happy to deny that with the consumption of alcohol goes, we want the risks to appoint and new consumptielimieten publish so French about it more think about it”, says François Bourdillon on behalf of Santé Publique in France, the campaign must defend.

I've never seen a younger plastered from a night club to see, because he has to many Côtes-du-Rhône ophad

Didier Guillaume

French winemakers are not set up with the campaign: “She brings to the average wine drinkers upset”, it sounds. “This ensures that our consumers feel guilty, start to feel.”

binge drinking

it is Remarkable that the French Agriculture minister, Didier Guillaume, just two weeks ago found that binge drinking was a problem among young people but that wine, the national drink, this had nothing to do. “I've never seen a younger plastered from a night club to see, because he has to many Côtes-du-Rhône, Crozes-Hermitage or Costières-de-Nimes ophad", said the minister to the pleasure of the growers.

The wijnlobby also see it like so, and it is questionable whether the rather shocking figures are correct, namely that almost a quarter of the French, about 10.5 million adults drink more than the now recommended two glasses per day. That type of advice is often adjusted. In the ‘50s was that: a maximum of 1 litre per meal, so 2 litres per day.