Re: French paradox solved?

What's your point, Ron? Unless they ate huge amounts of pork relative
to Americans, this is not likely to make much of a difference.
Instead, the way science is supposed to work is that you present a
hypothesis, then test it or at least attempt to get funding (if that
is a possibility). If the oxidative stress/free radical damage/
arachidonic acid overload/antioxidant deficiency kind of hypothesis is
correct, one simple study would be to measure the reactive molecules
generated by the supposedly typical French diet relative to its
American counterpart, correct? Since PUFAs are very reactive
biochemically whereas saturated fatty acids have the opposite effect,
one should do a study on this specifically, though the evidence up to
this point is so strong (just the raw demographic data alone is
conclusive in terms of invalidating claims against "saturated fat").
As it stands, my diet is the "ultimate paradox diet," with as much
sugar and salt as I like, and as much saturated fatty acids as I can
ingest without it affecting taste (and very little PUFAs). Not only I
am fine, 7 years after beginning this "experiment," but I also
overcame an affliction that almost killed me. If anyone should have
died of a diet that most American "experts" would deem horrendous, it
should have been me. Instead, all the people I see with serious
medical issues are consuming PUFA-rich and usually meat-rich diets,
and this makes perfect sense - if you are willing to examine the
molecular-level evidence (and assuming that you understand it).

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