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Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
‘Detox juice': Paris organises first mocktail competition to mark Dry January
Paris held its first edition of a competition for 'the best mocktail' to mark Dry January, a month when people are encouraged to abstain from drinking alcohol. The event took place in Paris's city hall with three young trainees competing for first place in front of a 10-person jury. 'This is almost a detox juice and everything is homemade,' said Hyppolite Damon from the French hospitality school EPMT who created a mocktail with carrot, honey, lemon syrup, and smoked rosemary. Damon received the first-place prize for the drink. Three Parisian nightclubs also showed off their latest non-alcoholic creations in a bid to woo the jury. 'For us, it's very important to come and support Dry January because alcohol is a real public health issue, with all the illnesses it causes. In 2023, alcohol will cause 49,000 deaths,' Anne-Claire Boux, the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of public health issues, told Euronews Health. She also mentioned the role alcohol plays in road accidents and sexist and sexual violence. 'It's important for this event to show that there can be an alternative that's just as enjoyable and that doesn't take anything away from the festivities,' she added. While the city of Paris organised the event in support of Dry January, an initiative first officially launched in the UK in 2013, the French government has not publicly backed any Dry January campaign. In the UK, however, the initiative has been supported by Public Health England since 2015. French public radio recently published investigations into the lobbying efforts of alcohol manufacturers, with NGOs criticising what they say has had an impact on political decisions. 'It's true that the French government not only didn't want [to support Dry January] but at the start, was opposed to it. Being here today, in the largest town hall in France, it's a great symbolic gesture,' Bernard Basset, a doctor and the president of Addiction France, told Euronews Health. Related Shaken not slurred: The rise of non-alcoholic cocktails as young people say no to booze In 2019, one in twelve people in the EU aged over 15 consumed alcohol daily, according to the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS). France had more daily and weekly drinkers compared to the European average. Around 26 per cent of Europeans reported not having had alcohol in the past year, and in France, it was slightly lower with 23 per cent. Alcohol consumption has been linked to liver disease, heart disease, and different types of cancers, as well as mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety and alcohol use disorders, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). 'The key is to assess your consumption. We know that there are guidelines for lower-risk consumption,' Basset said, referencing the maximum of two drinks a day, and not everyday guidelines provided by the national public health institution. 'What has been shown is that when you take a break from drinking in January, you drink less in the months and years that follow, and drinking less is better for your health,' he added.
Euronews
29-01-2025
- Health
- Euronews
‘Detox juice': Paris organises first mocktail competition to mark Dry January
Paris held its first edition of a competition for 'the best mocktail' to mark Dry January, a month when people are encouraged to abstain from drinking alcohol. The event took place in Paris's city hall with three young trainees competing for first place in front of a 10-person jury. 'This is almost a detox juice and everything is homemade,' said Hyppolite Damon from the French hospitality school EPMT who created a mocktail with carrot, honey, lemon syrup, and smoked rosemary. Damon received the first-place prize for the drink. Three Parisian nightclubs also showed off their latest non-alcoholic creations in a bid to woo the jury. 'For us, it's very important to come and support Dry January because alcohol is a real public health issue, with all the illnesses it causes. In 2023, alcohol will cause 49,000 deaths,' Anne-Claire Boux, the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of public health issues, told Euronews Health. She also mentioned the role alcohol plays in road accidents and sexist and sexual violence. 'It's important for this event to show that there can be an alternative that's just as enjoyable and that doesn't take anything away from the festivities,' she added. While the city of Paris organised the event in support of Dry January, an initiative first officially launched in the UK in 2013, the French government has not publicly backed any Dry January campaign. In the UK, however, the initiative has been supported by Public Health England since 2015. French public radio recently published investigations into the lobbying efforts of alcohol manufacturers, with NGOs criticising what they say has had an impact on political decisions. 'It's true that the French government not only didn't want [to support Dry January] but at the start, was opposed to it. Being here today, in the largest town hall in France, it's a great symbolic gesture,' Bernard Basset, a doctor and the president of Addiction France, told Euronews Health. Risk for health In 2019, one in twelve people in the EU aged over 15 consumed alcohol daily, according to the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS). France had more daily and weekly drinkers compared to the European average. Around 26 per cent of Europeans reported not having had alcohol in the past year, and in France, it was slightly lower with 23 per cent. Alcohol consumption has been linked to liver disease, heart disease, and different types of cancers, as well as mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety and alcohol use disorders, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). 'The key is to assess your consumption. We know that there are guidelines for lower-risk consumption,' Basset said, referencing the maximum of two drinks a day, and not everyday guidelines provided by the national public health institution. 'What has been shown is that when you take a break from drinking in January, you drink less in the months and years that follow, and drinking less is better for your health,' he added.
Euronews
26-01-2025
- Health
- Euronews
This country is the most depressed in Europe. How does yours compare?
France may have had the highest pre-pandemic depression level among European countries, according to a new analysis of a 2019 health survey across the continent. The analysis from the statistical arm of France's health and social ministries (DREES) found that the depression rate in France was around 11 per cent pre-pandemic, which was the highest of any other European country. The report was based on data from the European Health Interview Survey, which is carried out every six years, and included some 300,000 people across the European Union, Norway, Iceland, and Serbia. This was the first time the DREES used the 2019 survey to measure depression and the prevalence was estimated based on eight questions from the Patient Health Questionnaire. The analysis looked at "whether or not a person had suffered from depressive syndromes over the last two weeks based on a series of criteria," Lisa Troy, the study's author from the directorate's research and international studies department, told Euronews Health. It comes as multiple studies have pointed to a growing mental health crisis in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among young people in France and other European countries. The new DREES report also focused on young people aged 15 to 24 and older people aged 70 and up. Jocelyne Caboche, emeritus research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research's (CNRS) Neuroscience Sorbonne University lab (Neuro-SU), told Euronews Health that while she did not have an explanation for France seeing a "relatively" higher level of depression compared to other countries, it could be due an "accumulation of elements". "While we are relatively well taken care of in terms of health and education, there still needs to be significant efforts made in caring for the elderly," said Caboche, who was not involved in the study. She added that depression could improve with better investment in psychiatry and therapeutic innovation. What factors contribute to depression in European countries? Overall, the new analysis showed that the highest depression levels were in northern and western European countries. But while depression is rare among younger people in southern and eastern European countries, it is higher among people aged 70 and older in those countries, the report found. Depression rates were over 15 per cent among older individuals in Portugal, Romania, and Croatia, for instance. Older women were also more depressed than older men, according to the survey data, and older Europeans in poor health were more prone to depression. With more older Europeans reporting poor health in eastern and southern European countries, this could explain the higher prevalence of depression there, the report's authors said. "For example, in Croatia or Latvia, where nearly 40 per cent of seniors report poor health, the prevalence of depression is high: 16 per cent and 9 per cent respectively," the report authors noted. Being socially isolated and widowed also appeared to impact depression among older individuals. For younger Europeans, the highest rates of depression were in Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, followed by western European countries. Depression among young people was lower in eastern and southern European countries. "I was impressed by the differences between depression rates among young people and older people in southeastern [European] countries and inversely by the idea that young people were very depressed in [northern European countries] and that it's the only region where among older people, depression decreased by age," Troy said. In countries with higher rates of depression among young people, it was linked to social isolation, not having a professional activity or going to school, and income level. Caboche added that social media can also play a role "by promoting harmful social comparisons, concerns around body image particularly among girls, reducing the duration of sleep, and increasing the risks of cyber-harassment". Poor health among young people also significantly raised the risk of depression by some 32 percentage points, the report found. It added that the EHIS data may have limitations including differences in questionnaire methods on mental health issues between countries.
