Anorexia Nervosa : French Wine & Health Care!

France is famous for its wine and Health Care:

In my post on PIP implant I suggested that the French should stick to wine making: I was unfortunately wrong. They only make the labels it would seem.

In the wine worlds most dramatic news since the Austrians added anti-freeze to their winesyears ago one of the big Burgundian houses is in serious trouble.

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Decanter: Laboure-Roi directors detained in wine fraud probe

Four directors of Maison Labouré-Roi, the 180-year-old Burgundy negociant house, have been accused of various counts of wine fraud.

…..Public Prosecutor Eric Lallement said during a press conference held in Dijon last night (13 June) that the fraud office was first alerted due to a disparity in figures between what the company was actually bottling and what it should have been, given the yields declared at harvest time. ‘It was as if the company was managing to vinify 100% of its musts, which is impossible,’ he said.

On investigating this, he said police found evidence of several specific frauds: firstly bypassing legal blending limits, affecting every level of the production from Grand Cru, Premier Cru and Village appellations, and adding table wine to wine musts to top up the ‘angel’s share’, Lallement said. He said the suspected fraud related to 500,000 bottles of wine, worth €2.7m in sales.

The second fraud detailed was over wine quality and labeling. ‘When the company needed to fulfil an order of a wine that it had run out of, it swapped labels with other wines,’ said Lallement. The magnitude of this fraud is estimated to be around 1.1m bottles.

****PIP implants manufactured by a French farm using non medical grade material: read it all here>>>>

So should they now stick to Health Care; best in the world according to WHO a few years back!

 ©2008 Am Ang Zhang

Reading a new book sometimes brings you the unexpected.

In Ahead of the Curves, the author told of the story he heard of Jacques Chirac and his pact with West African marabouts, witch doctors. He was told to sacrifice one of his daughters if he wanted his presidency. Soon after his younger daughter, began suffering from anorexia nervosa.

So, I Googled Chirac’s daughter:

Chirac's wife tells of anorexic daughter's death wish

Telegraph: By Colin Randall

Published: 07 Dec 2004

President Jacques Chirac's wife has broken a 30-year silence to talk publicly about the anorexia that drove their elder daughter to try repeatedly to kill herself.

"A mother who fails with a child, who cannot bring a sick child back to health, always feels guilty," Bernadette Chirac said on French television. "And a father, too."

Laurence Chirac, now 46, was a promising medical student and worked for a short time after her studies with Samu, the emergency medical service, in Paris.

But she had suffered from an acute form of the eating disorder since she was 15, leading to several stays in hospitals and clinics.

Sixteen years ago, during her father's second presidential campaign, she was taken to hospital amid widespread rumours that she had died.

"Being famous can be harmful when one is faced with illness," Mrs Chirac said. "Confronting this kind of difficulty, you just want to hide from the gaze of others."

Laurence, whose younger sister Claude is a key member of the president's team at the Elysée, continued to suffer from the condition. In 1990 she tried to commit suicide by jumping out of the window of her fourth-floor flat.

A nurse assigned to her round-the-clock care was unable to stop Miss Chirac, who survived with a broken pelvis and head injuries.

Little has been heard of her since and Mrs Chirac said merely that she always kept the hope "pinned to my heart" that her daughter would recover.

Mrs Chirac has been the president since 1994 of a charity seeking to create better conditions for children and teenagers in hospital, enabling them to listen to or play music and play sports. She agreed to talk about her daughter on a France 3 discussion programme, “You Cannot Please Everyone”, to help publicise a new clinic for adolescents, La Maison de Solenn, funded by her charity.

"These children need some gaiety in their lives, to be able to see the sun," said Mrs Chirac,

She contrasted this ideal with the conditions in which her daughter was sometimes treated, "enclosed behind brick walls in a bedroom with a small window". She added: "That is why this mother wants to create a facility specific to adolescents' needs.

French Health Care as experienced by the President’s daughter.

We did not do too badly with our own Adolescent Psychiatric Units.

Related:

A Brief History of Time: Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa: What If!

The Cockroach Catcher: A Chapter on Anorexia Nervosa, 

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