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According to a 2009 study released Tuesday, 15.1 percent of French women are classified as clinically obese, while 26 percent more are overweight. The poll, conducted by TNS Sofres Healthcare and the Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche also pointed to similar trends among the male population, with 13.9 percent of French obese and 38.5 percent are overweight.

For years the world has marveled at the ability of the French, particularly French women to stay thin in a country famous for its cakes, wine and cheese.

The author Mireille French Guilane 2004 even published a manual on diet entitled French Women Don #39; t Get Fat ( The French Do not Get Fat), praising the eating habits of women who prefer to savor your meal quietly and never peck out hours. However, the reality is that over the past 12 years, the average French person has risen 3.1 kilos and has 4.7 extra inches of waist, the study . Dr. (more…)

PARIS (Reuters) – Was the young Nicolas Sarkozy in Berlin the night the wall fell 20 years ago The French president said that it was and reiterated in its social page Facebook on Sunday. But while I was in the German capital on Monday to celebrate the anniversary of the event with other world leaders, French media say confused the dates and details. The morning of 9 November (in 1989) we saw on the news in Berlin that indicated that there were plans for change in the divided German capital, Sarkozy said in his Facebook page, which includes a photograph of him in the wall that night.

We decided, Alain Juppe, to leave Paris and take part in the event that was happening, he wrote, referring to the then secretary general of Sarkozy's party, the RPR.

Publication Sarkozy goes on to describe how and Juppe rushed to the gates of Brandenburg, where a crowd had gathered. After we went to Checkpoint Charlie to cross to the eastern side of the city and deal with this wall, which could take some blows with a pick, wrote the French leader. (more…)

At least three people were killed and seven were seriously injured and another was left buried under the rubble of the bridge, struck in the Principality of Andorra.

According to The View , part of the construction stage of the road bridge, a length of about 20 meters, collapsed on Saturday near the tunnel Dos Valires in the district of La Massana in the north-west of Andorra, which is located between France and Spain.

under the rubble of concrete and steel scaffolds were 11 workers. (more…)

In a brief speech Sunday, Barack Obama urged the U.S. Senate to approve his project. What the House of Representatives did last night left us closer than ever to a comprehensive reform of the health system in America, he said. After 12 hours of debate on a 2,000 pages of text, the plan lawmakers voted by 220 votes to 215 against. The plan would be implemented in 10 years (2010-2019) and would cost 900,000 million dollars to extend coverage to 36 million Americans currently without health insurance. But so that the law can beenacted the Senate must approve it and the picture is rather more complex than Obama said. Overall, the Senate adopts its own version, which it can diverge from passed by the House of Representatives. Once the text be approved by the Senate, of the Houses of Parliament meet to agree on the final wording of the law. That is where the joint vote of senators and representatives. If the reform is approved in the Senate need 60 votes of the 100 U.S. senators. Of the 100 seats, 58 belong to the Democrats and two independents who usually accompany the majority. But in this case some moderate Democrats are not certain to vote Yes and one of the two independents, Joe Lieberman, has already expressed its opposition to the current text. Democrats will again face Republican arguments against this reform. (more…)

ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) – Rich and developing nations fought on Saturday climate change, but not made significant progress on its funding before the big environmental summit in Copenhagen next month.

Britain, which sponsored the meeting of G20 finance ministers in Scotland, decided to push a deal of 100,000 million dollars to cover the costs of climate change in 2020.

But the talks stalled in a dispute with major developing countries over who should pay the bill.

There was a heated discussion, said Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. I think we should be very careful in approaching the possibility of accumulating large new commitments on developing countries because it may put a brake on the achievement of other critical tasks such as eradication of poverty added. The climate change debate lasted for hours and a French official said the debate was so intense that there was a risk that the final statement did not mention climate change at all. Finally, they agreed on the need for significantly increasing the scale and urgency and predictability of finance to implement an ambitious international agreement.

DISAPPOINTING

Leaders of the European Union (EU) agreed in October that developing countries would require 100,000 million euros per year in 2020 to combat climate change. (more…)