and gives others something of value to their lives and experiences!!!
Frances Lesson About Life…
https://ponbee.com/collect-moments-not-things/
Why does France have half the heart disease of England, however,
when it comes to cancer more people get cancer in France.
http://globalcancermap.com/
Sometimes its “Lies, damned lies, and statistics lying” is a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments. It is also sometimes colloquially used to doubt statistics used to prove an opponent’s point. But In Britain sometimes there health care screening can be laxed showing not as much cancer in that country. Given France has probably the best Health Care in the world they screen and catch the cancer earlier providing a better return for their investment.
The National Health Service, which was set up by an act of Parliament in 1947. France Health Care Best in the World gave every resident access to free medical care. A system created that operated local public hospitals throughout the country and directly employed doctors, nurses, and other health workers. Family doctors, specialists, and dentists received payment from the government for treating patients. Although any doctor or patient can practice privately or pay for private medical care. There has been continuing debates on the level of care and service that should be provided and how it should be funded. The system was intended to provide unlimited medical care to any patient, in some ways,
the service has been a victim of its own success.
Free medical care and successful efforts to promote better health, diet, and working conditions have meant that people live much longer and the government is obligated to pay the full cost.. In some ways, the service has been a victim of its own success. Free medical care and successful efforts to promote better health, diet, and working conditions have meant that people live much longer. The care of the frail elderly has consumed an increasing amount of resources; as have advances in treating diseases. Governments’ attempts to control the costs of health care inevitably result in the covert rationing of resources, which conflicts with the principle of the citizen’s right to high-quality free care when it is needed.
More Information about France!!!
With its 66,259,012 people, France is the 21st largest country in the world by population. It is the 43rd largest country in the world by area with 643,801 square kilometers. France today is one of the most modern countries in the world and is a leader among European nations.
It plays an influential global role as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, NATO, the G-8, the G-20, the EU and other multilateral organizations. France rejoined NATO’s integrated military command structure in 2009, reversing DE GAULLE’s 1966 decision to take French forces out of NATO.
Since 1958, it has constructed a hybrid presidential-parliamentary governing system resistant to the instabilities experienced in earlier, more purely parliamentary administrations. In recent decades, its also reconciliation and cooperation with Germany have proved central to the economic integration of Europe, including the introduction of a common currency, the euro, in January 1999. In the early 21st century, five French overseas entities – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonia
https://everything-everywhere.com/french-overseas-territories/
Differences between French and British companies
With these five entities probably having less stress from the rat race hustle and bustle of everyday life. This link reflects what I am talking about in Britain and France versus
The United States (per 100,000 people.)
United States
352.2
France
344.1
France (New Caledonia)
324.2
France (Guadeloupe)
254.6
France (Martinique)
250.8
France (French Guiana)
247.0
France (French Polynesia)
240.6
United Kingdom
319.2
Sociology of Obesity
Evidence shows the obesity rate of England to be more than double the rate of France, affecting 23 % of the population. These statistics have led me to ask; how can two countries separated, in parts, by The Channel Tunnel (French: Le tunnel sous la Manche; also nicknamed the Chunnel) is a 50.45-kilometre (31.35 mi) railway tunnel that connects Folkestone, Kent, in England, with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France, beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. It is the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and the European mainland.
http://www.yourchildlearns.
com/online-atlas/united-kingdom-map.htm
How can its people have vastly different physiques?
Firstly, diet. On the whole France appears to have less of a fast-food culture than England.
Not only is there a smaller range of establishments, but much of the fast food (French Fries or Brit Chips), and are often accompanied by a healthier alternative; for example the Mac Cafe’s which run alongside many McDonalds outlets. Snacking itself also appears to be less widespread and less socially acceptable; indeed it is very rare to see somebody eating in the street, let alone eating fish and chips from a paper wrapper.
Additionally, in most English cities they have become accustomed to the proliferation of chains such as Starbucks offering drinks ranging from the ‘Pumpkin Spice Latte’ to the ‘Salted Caramel Mocha Frappuccino’, offered in the Italian ‘Grande’ size, to ease the blow of ordering such an indulgent drink in our own language. Whilst in France, the hot drink of choice still appears to be the simple Expresso; at least half the size of a standard coffee and taken without milk; effectively mini-sizing the fat and calorific content. In essence, in despite of the abundance of croissants and baguettes in every French Patisserie in sight, the average French diet appears to be based on simplicity and small portion sizes. And it is this sense of minimalism which the English could arguably benefit from.
https://spoonuniversity.com/
lifestyle/10-ways-the-french-
view-food-differently-than-americans
France remains faithful to food as meals continue to be a collective affair.’ The deep-rooted ritual of French mealtimes sees a daily communion so regular that watches could be set with the tables. Every day a small miracle occurs without anyone paying the slightest attention. At breakfast, lunch and supper tens of millions of French people decide to gather round a table at the same time in order to share a meal, as if some invisible conductor raised his baton to mark the start of festivities. This ritual is so deep-rooted that the French find it quite usual. For foreigners, on the other hand, it is like something from outer space.
One of the reasons for the solidity of these customs is that they are firmly rooted in the past. “France has a Roman Catholic tradition which sustains a sensual, hedonistic relation to food,” says Pascal Ory, a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris. “In the Jura, for example, nuns in Château-Chalon took charge of promoting vin jaune. Catholicism, with its celebration of the Eucharist, helped develop a real culture of eating and drinking, with emphasis on the collective, communal dimension of meals. This is not the case in countries with Anglo-Saxon roots, where Protestantism entertains a more Puritan relationship with food.
https://www.enkivillage.org/french-eating-habits.html
France’s rural past is also a major factor in the importance attached to eating. “In peasant families meals were often the only time they stopped working,” Corbeau explains. “It was a break for a moment of convivial exchange, sharing and joking. This rural tradition lasted longer in France than in Britain, where industrial and urban development started much earlier. When small French farmers left the land for the factory, in the late nineteen century, their entitlement to a proper break was a key issue in negotiations with employers:
a 35 hour work week, many workers refused to take breaks in workshops,
standing beside their machines.”
So is this why these traditions are so persistent?
The French tend to see gastronomy as an art form. “Grimod de La Reynière, one of the founders of gourmet food criticism, started as a drama critic and often referred to Michelangelo,” Ory recalls with a smile. Advocates of a balanced diet have no complaints either: with its emphasis on sharing and togetherness, the French approach to food seems
to help limit obesity. In France meals are strongly associated with good company and sharing, which is undoubtedly less so in other countries,” says Loïc Bienassis, a researcher at the European Institute of Food History and Culture . “People pay more attention to standards of nutrition in a group than on their own,” Bienassis asserts. “We drink in moderation, try to have some of everything, avoid taking a third helping because we are being watched and judged by others. Which is not the case when we nibble on our own beside the fridge.” So the pleasure of having a proper meal is good for us, which is just as well!
“When the American sociologist David Lerner visited France in 1956 he was stunned by the inflexibility of the French regarding food,” says fellow sociologist Claude Fischler, head of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research ). “He couldn’t understand why they all ate at a fixed time, like at the zoo.” French eating habits are indeed very singular. “Everyday life in France is marked by three traditional meals,” says Thibaut de Saint Pol, a sociologist at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Cachan. “At 1pm half the population are at table and at 8.15pm this activity concerns more than a third of the population. Meals play a large part in organizing social life.” This major collective ritual is specific to France. A graph plotting meal times produced by Eurostat [the statistical office of the European Union] is almost flat for Sweden, Finland, Slovenia and Britain; all the way through the day people feed on various snacks, at no particular time.
The same graph for France rises to three spectacular spikes, morning, noon and night.
The French are very keen on commensality [eating together]. According the Crédoc consumer studies and research institute, 80% of meals are taken with other people. “In France meals are strongly associated with good company and sharing, which is undoubtedly less so in other countries,” says Loïc Bienassis, a researcher at the European Institute of Food History and Culture. Americans take a radically different approach. There is nothing sacred about meals: everyone eats at their own speed, depending on their appetite,
outside constraints and timetable.
As long ago as 1937 French writer Paul Morand was surprised to see New Yorkers lunching alone, in the street, “like in a stable”. US practice is so different from French ritual that it sometimes requires explanation. “There’s a secondary school in Toulouse which organizes exchanges with young Americans,” says social anthropologist Jean-Pierre Poulain. “To avoid any misunderstandings teachers warn families before their children leave that the start of their stay will not be marked by an evening meal, as in France. When the young visitors arrive they are shown the fridge and told they can help themselves whenever they like.”
This is a wonderful and rich book The Sociology of Food: Eating the Place of Food in Society. Jean-Pierre Poulain. Translated by Augusta Dorr. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. because it situates food in a central position among a variety of social and behavioral sciences and other fields, such as medical and nutritional sciences. Jean-Pierre Poulain is one of the foremost French food sociologists. In this book, which is separated into two major parts, with new chapters added recently, Poulain argues that the person who is eating should be the focus of all food studies. Past studies, he contends, were too narrow and missed the opportunity to integrate inter-disciplinary perspectives. He argues that this person-eater focus enables the beginnings of this interdisciplinary discussion to address both theoretical and practical/policy related questions.
https://foodanthro.com/2017/
09/10/review-the-sociology-of-food/
French food vs British food!!!
The English are very keen on snacking too. Saint Pol can see no evidence of “food synchronism”. According to Poulain and fellow sociologist Cyrille Laporte, food consumption is spread out over the day, resulting in a “loss of conviviality”. “Many Brits eat at the wheel or with one eye on their PC, which is sacrilege for the French, who regard meals as a ‘full-time’ activity. In France meals are one of the best bits of the day,” Saint Pol adds. In a survey of how French people spend their time the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies found that eating procures almost as much pleasure as reading or listening to music.
Eating alone, at work or at home, is often seen as a trial.
With passing time the basic paradigm has become more flexible, in office cafeterias and homes. “It has loosened up quite a lot,” Poulain asserts. “Whereas in the 1960s works canteens only served set meals, they have since introduced self-service systems with several dishes to choose from. At home it’s much the same: everyone has some of the main dish, but not necessarily the same after. It’s one of the big changes we’ve seen in the recent decades, with increasingly individualized choice of foods, even if it mainly concerns the beginning and end of the meal.”
Despite such changes – and contrary to what many feared – France has not succumbed to fast food. The French meal still plays a key part in people’s lives and imagination. The two main pillars of this model – eating at the same time and socializing – are still just as solid. Regardless of the spread of fast-food outlets, the upheaval in the world of work and the emergence of a youth culture, the French still eat their three meals a day at a set time and attach great importance to conviviality, pleasure and sharing. “For the past 20 years alarmist commentators have repeatedly predicted the demise of the French meal,” Saint Pol says. “But meals in France still structure our daily lives and our relations with others.”
French eating habits have proved sufficiently robust to survive, even at McDonald’s. “When the fast-food outlets first launched in France they were open all day, assuming they would have a steady stream of customers,” says Jean-Pierre Corbeau, emeritus professor at Tours University. “In practice they were deserted at 9am, but seething from 12 noon to 2pm, because the French go on taking their meals at the customary times. Customers – particularly young people – made it a relatively social experience. Instead of eating on their own, or taking a burger back to their car, they would turn up in groups, all sit together at one table and pass food around.”
The cancer maps show that bowel cancer rates for men and women were higher than average in Scotland and Northern Ireland and in men living in urban, northern England. Male and female lung cancer rates were high in central Scotland and northern England. Cancers associated with drinking alcohol – of the lip, mouth and throat – were again more common in Scotland and northern England. There was also a high incidence of these cancers in Irish men. Scotland also had higher than average rates of bladder cancer in women and in northern Scotland there was a higher than average incidence of breast cancer.
List_of_countries_by_cancer_rate
The Cancer Atlas can be found at: www.statistics.gov.uk.
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-
professional/cancer-statistics/risk/tobacco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_in_the_United_Kingdom
http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/cancer-survival-rates-by-country/
http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/cancer-rates-by-state/
https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/all-cancers/by-country/