The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on June 23, 2009
The European Journal of Public Health 2009 19(4):353; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckp083
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How are you?: what do you mean?
Thierry Lang and Cyrille DelpierreINSERM UMR 558, Université Paul Sabatier, CHU de Toulouse, F-31000 Toulouse, France
Correspondence: Thierry Lang, INSERM UMR 558, Université Paul Sabatier, CHU de Toulouse, F-31000 Toulouse, France, tel: +33 561 145 935, fax: +33 562 264 240, e-mail: lang@cict.fr
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For Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, a French writer and distinguished amateur of food, What is health? It is chocolate! (Quest-ce que la santé? Cest du chocolat!).1 Interviewing Henry David Thoreau, the problem of how to measure health would be solved as follows: Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring.2 For Balzac, at the end of the XIXth Century, a woman over 30 years of age