French Nutritionists Hail Big Mac Over Quiche

[matcom]

maybe they want Bush* to start calling them 'French' Fries again? :)

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PARIS (Reuters) - Want to stay fit and healthy? Two top French nutritionists are telling people to go for a Big Mac and keep their fingers off the traditional French quiche.

In an unexpected message to a country priding itself on the superiority of its food, a new food guide praises the McDonald's burger for having a higher and healthier protein-to-fat ratio than France's Quiche Lorraine.

"Strangely enough, the products which are the most demonized are not necessarily the worst," Jean-Michel Cohen and Patrick Serog write in their book "Savoir Manger," in which they analyze 5,000 dishes available in shops and restaurants.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=2&u=/nm/20040319/od_nm/odd_france_bigmacs_dc

[mstrsplinter326]

1. protein to fat isn't the only ratio that matters

[NJCher]

2. French is the language of diplomacy

I think they are damning with faint praise.


Cher

[JohnyCanuck]

3. If the Quiche is worse for you than a big Mac

How come we are always reading how healthy the French people eating tradition French cuisine are compared to us big-bottomed, heart diseased North Americans with our fast food, mostly quiche-less lifestyles. If, as claimed some medical researchers, it's all in the red wine the French consume with their meals, maybe Mickey Dees better start serving wine instead of coca cola in their North American operations. Now that would go over like a ton of bricks with the right-wing fundamentalists. What a sleazy trick by God to put protective, health inducing ingredients in the devil's brew.