I reported it here first, but here's the San Francisco Chronicle's article informing us that the French are getting fatter . . .because they're adopting American eating habits.

But Socialist lawmaker Jean-Marie Le Guen, a doctor by training, is not
satisfied. Earlier this year, he introduced ambitious fat-fighting legislation
that would ban food advertising on television and make weighing children
compulsory in schools.
"Are we expected to watch this obesity epidemic grow and assume it's fate?" asked Le Guen.