Re: French paradox solved?

Ron Peterson wrote:
On Mar 5, 3:46 pm, monty1...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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.

I consider 3 times as much pork and probably half the beef as being a
huge difference. But, I am a little skeptical of the claim that the
French are much healthier than Americans and the possible reasons for
a difference in health.

Well, they do have more liver problems -- or at least, they talk more about their livers. But they certainly have less obesity.

The paradox is about heart disease, though. It's a matter of seeking an explanation for the low incidence of heart disease in France despite risk factors which in America would add up to serious trouble.

(Incidentally, pork has more pantothenic acid than beef, but I'm sure there are many differences between French and American meats -- and the French eat less meat, but of much greater variety. When was the last time you had snails, frogs legs, wild or domestic rabbit, crawdads, wild or domestic goose or their eggs, wild or domestic duck, veal, venison, mutton, goat chops, pigs' feet, quail, partridge, robins, calves' brains, sweetbreads, kidneys, beef heart, rams' testicles, cockles, mussels, caviar, and so on?)

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