Wine-Loving French Citizens Outraged By Recommendation To Limit Their Daily Intake To Two Glasses

A judge tastes a red wine at the 'International Wine Challenge' event at Lords Cricket ground on April 16, 2012 in London, England. Judges will taste over 10,000 bottles of wine from across the globe, with wines in each category winning either Gold, Silver, Bronze or Commended in the biggest and most important event of its kind in the world. Wines awarded with Gold Medals then go on to be re-tasted in the Trophy Round to decide which may be awarded Champion status

As a nation the French are renowned for enjoying a tipple. Their wines are legendary and a good meal in France is more often than not accompanied by a glass or two of something red or white and a bit fruity.

So you can just imagine how these connoisseurs of the grape reacted to a bunch of busy-bodies telling them to cut down on the boozing for the sake of their health.

The Sun reports that furious French people are finding an anti-alcohol campaign launched by the Public Health France very hard to swallow.

The health initiative urges citizens to put the cork back in the bottle and slash their alcohol consumption to just two meager glasses a day.

To ram home their point the agency have put together a string of advertisements which warns that if drinkers do nothing to curb their current consumption they are endangering their health and even their lives.

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