Don Wiss wrote:
>
> When people look for reasons for the French Paradox they look for what they
> are adding to their diet to get protective benefits. Todd Moody suggests
> they are eating more organ meats and root vegetables. Recent news article
> suggest it comes from their drinking red wine. This focus on what to add
> probably comes from a marketing mentality. If we can just find what it is
> we can sell it to everybody else.
>
> I, on the other hand, have the theory that it comes from what they don't
> eat. So my theory is the paradox comes from their consuming less trans
> fats. They use real butter, not margarine. They tend not to deep fry foods.
> French fries are pan fried in oil. In general they eat real foods, not fake
> ones. Does this makes sense to anyone else?


Yes.  Also the fact that they eat remarkably less sugar than Americans
do (or than the English and Scots do, for that matter.)

Of course, there's no reason why there has to be *one* factor.
Multifactorialism is pretty darned common, I believe.

--
Dana