Re: French paradox solved?


"Taka" <taka0038@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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French paradox redux? US vs. French on being full

It's the French paradox redux: Why don't the French get as fat as
Americans, considering all the baguettes, wine, cheese, pate and
pastries they eat?

Because they use internal cues -- such as no longer feeling hungry --
to stop eating, reports a new Cornell study. Americans, on the other
hand, tend to use external cues -- such as whether their plate is
clean, they have run out of their beverage or the TV show they're
watching is over.

"Furthermore, we have found that the heavier a person is -- French or
American -- the more they rely on external cues to tell them to stop
eating and the less they rely on whether they felt full," said senior
author Brian Wansink, the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing and
director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab in the Department of
Applied Economics and Management, now on leave to serve as executive
director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Center for Nutrition
Policy and Promotion until January 2009.

The new study, an analysis of questionnaires from 133 Parisians and
145 Chicagoans about how they decide when to stop eating, is being
published in the journal Obesity and is being presented this later
month at an the Winter Marketing Educators conference.

"Over-relying on external cues to stop eating a meal may prove useful
in offering a partial explanation of why body mass index [a
calculation based on the relationship of weight to height] varies
across people and potentially across cultures," said co-author Collin
Payne, a Cornell postdoctoral researcher. He stressed that further
studies should following up with smoking behavior and socio-economic
differences as well. "Relying on internal cues for meal cessation,
rather than on external cues, may improve eating patterns in the long
term.

SOURCE: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/cfb-fpr021508.php#

Well, pulling wild monkeys from my ass, I think I would suggest that the
French Paradox comes from eating more fat. Also, I've heard anecdotes that,
for example, that the French use French Bread to push food onto their fork.
They aren't interested in eating the stuff.

Much is made of the red wine and resveritrol (spelling?), but I suspect that
will not pan out. Epidemiology is not like engineering a car.


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