Massive Health + Home. Massive Health. Tracking The Junk Food The World Eats After Dark : The Salt. Gut Bacteria Could Help with Diagnostics and Influence Treatments | Scicasts - Science and Technology Trade News Network. French spend most time shopping, eating and sleeping. The French sleep an average of 8.5 hours a night, says the OECD’s annual Society at a Glance report, making France the best rested country out of the organisation’s 34 members. They also spend the most time eating and drinking: more than two hours per day on average.
That’s nearly twice as long as Americans or Canadians spend consuming. However, belying their reputation for culinary savoir faire, the French typically spend just 48 minutes per day cooking – less than the OECD average. Less time in the kitchen means more time in the shops: the French spend 32 minutes each day shopping. All this leisure time, plus the highest social protection spending of any OECD country (28 per cent of GDP), gives French people the second-highest life expectancy in the OECD. Their relative quality of life doesn’t necessarily make the French any more generous, though: only 31 per cent of them do volunteer work, give money or help strangers, compared to the OECD average of 39 per cent.