French Paradox -paradox? or parahoax?

[Guest guest]

http://www.marininstitute.org/alcohol_policy/french_drinking.htm

A good article.

An interesting snippet:

Some specialists working on the WHO project think the data prove that

there is no French Paradox. De Lorgeril, however, believes that the

paradox exists in France and that a paradox also exists in adjoining

countries. " I'm sure that alco­hol or wine do not totally explain the

paradox and I don't know the answer, " he says. " It is not true that

the French are healthier than Americans. Their life expectancy is

about the same. Only one thing is true from this new information we

have - French women have the best life expectancy in the world. Maybe

better than the Japanese. They live on the aver­age 82 years, even

surpassing the Swedish woman's average 81.5 years. The key is to study

French women and right now epi­demiological data on the food and

alco­hol intake of French women are lacking. "

Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe, professor of cardiovascular epidemiology of

Dundee University at Ninewells Hospital, Scot­land, was lead author of

the MONICA report.

Another:

" After correcting for underreporting, the French coronaiy mortality is

still low, but comparable with neighboring coun­tries such as Italy,

south Germany, Spain, " he says. " So the 'French Paradox' becomes a

Mediterranean or south European paradox... If you go down what is

approximately the Greenwich meridian from Scotland to southern England

and then France and Spain, you follow an extraordinary decline in

coro­nary disease mortality over a distance of a few hundred miles. We

don't know why. "

[Guest guest]

UK researcher Corder recently published a book

" The Red Wine Diet "

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Wine-Diet--Corder/dp/1583332901

that identifies polyphenols (not resveratrol), especially

procyanidins found in wine, chocolates, apples, etc. as

the source of health benefits in certain French populations.

See his youtube talk for a summary of his research

Dave

[Guest guest]

Very interesting lecture. So all these resveratrol supplements aren’t worth a darn. (I suspected as much.) Next they’ll be coming out with a procyanidine pill.

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UK researcher Corder recently published a book

" The Red Wine Diet "

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Wine-Diet--Corder/dp/1583332901

that identifies polyphenols (not resveratrol), especially

procyanidins found in wine, chocolates, apples, etc. as

the source of health benefits in certain French populations.

See his youtube talk for a summary of his research

Dave