What Explains the French Paradox?

95 Risposte a “What Explains the French Paradox?”

1. Got saturated fats?

2. When I first went vegan this was the first argument that made me hold my breath. What can I expect but lies? Thanks again.

3. Thanks for sharing this Dr Greger! I've always wondered about this subject – great explaination as always! – Georgie ☺

4. very well debunked now i have an answer when i hear this bs

5. Sacré bleu!

6. but what about Finland?

7. Japan!
   Low fat sushi, or what?

8. I just wonder if some of the great health in Africa is not only case of underreporting.
   I still would be vegan and plant based, but it would make sense for my pessimistic and paranoid nature.

9. Merci Docteur Greger, très informatif!

10. Your videos never take into account epigenetics/emotional and psychological factors. That is massively suspect. You must be blind. Or have absolutely be not endowed with INTUITION!!

    Intuition: The knowledge that does not rely upon simple reason.

11. great research and all in a small video ! 😀

12. I've heard this fallacy so many times. Thanks for the video!

13. Busted!
    Thanks Dr. Greger

14. Finland has little SUNshine and France has much more SUNshine !!!

15. Wow

16. but what explains the Finnish paradox then?

17. Darn wine industry. Lol

18. sounds like a conspiracy, are they purposely not reporting heart disease?  There is just no getting around it, no matter how many veggies you eat, if you eat animals, you most likely will get heart disease.

19. i thought it was the OPC and the Resveratrol in wine :/

20. i lived in a small French Village for a while about 35 years ago
    they always eat a salad before their Meal, and the portions used to be very small especially the Meat
    also i was seeing People as old as 95 riding a Bike as form of daily transportation, and we walked almost every where
    plus the Fridge was so small you had no choice then to go to the Market every day …by foot or Bike

21. Hmm, I always thought it was the wine haha thanks for clearing that up :).

22. Thank you, I had no doubt (since all other countries lie near the line) that animal foods caused heart disease and that whole plants (vegetables) protect against it, but I always see someone with an agenda spouting something about the so called French Paradox. Nice video.

23. Wait, wait, don't tell me… – all explained by low animal protein in their diet? I must be getting clairevoyant.

24. Thanks Doc! I'm loving your book (just started it, 50 pages in) but I'm a bit confused about antioxidants & free radicals. I'm subscribed to Nature journal and just read about 'the free radical/antioxidant myth.'

25. Loving your new book

26. Thanks & happy Christmas!

27. And the other argument for low heart disease is that they consume more K2 through fermented milk and cheeses.

28. Love your content. I would be definitely buying your book soon.

29. with the recent Finnish sauna study, I'm surprised they faired so poorly…

30. Happy holidays Doc. Et viva la France!

31. Get your shit together Japan, you are lagging behind!

32. Wait, one thing isn't very clear: isn't the traditional French diet rich in cholesterol and animal fat? I mean, there was butter, cream and fois gras on every meal in the 19th century too, right? How do we know that they have started eating poorly recently?

33. Finland, wooo, yeah!

34. The Paleo/Kresser idiots will find some way to bury this material.

35. brilliant video !

36. I admire your work, keep up the awesomeness Doc! I also bought your book "How NOT to DIE". 🤓👍

37. thank u for all u do. ur amazing

38. u said …nothing….asswhipe

39. I'm french. This video is bullshit. All my relatives eat a lot of everything (and when I say everything it's EVERY FUCKING THINGS) and not in moderation. No one is fat. And those things that we eat are coming from centuries of culture, not yesterday. Keep searching.

40. It's called outliers not paradox, dumb dumb

41. One of the worst, most untrue nutritional statements out there is that eating fat makes you fat

42. the funny thing about silly animal eating americans who cling to the french "Paradox" as justification is they will blindly overlook 99% of the cases and data to justify their stupid deathstyles.

43. bulshit

44. I f*ckin hate your f*ckin voice because it's f*ckin annoying, for f*ck's sake.

45. No need to pick up bad american eating habits to get chronic disease in France… sure most old french people never had a Burger in their lives, eat exclusively home cooked food and a lot of home grown fruit and vegetables, but they also eat a LOT of meat and dairy. I'm french and none of my grandparents are obese but they're far from fit. And none of them can tell you what their parents died from.

46. why would french doctors underreport ?

47. As a former Professional Chef in 5 Star Hotels and Resorts, I can tell you that the French have been eating nutrient dense high fat foods for at least 75 years! Their world famous cuisine has always employed lots of butter, cream, eggs, cheese as well as generous amounts of liver pate!

48. This is silly. So basically we can eat animal fat as long as we eat veggies the bad saturated fats have no effect… I don't buy it. Maybe the other explanation is that fat doesn't cause heart disease, and what does is sugar. Finnish diet is 90% based on carbs. Another thing: French have been eating like this for a longer time than 40 years, Sir. Cheese and meat are part of the French diet from the beginning of times.

49. Are you this level of liar? The fact people consume high meat, don't mean they have heath habit, they may only be eating from fast food all day, don't doing exercises and eating no organic food. And where are the links for the research you shared? Are you trying to deceive people? Are you being paid by the carb and vegan lobby? Curious that only after the diet-heart hypotesis Americans started to get fat and have high heart attack rate.

50. It's a wide spread wine lobby bullshit marketing to force more wine sales down non-french populations' throats and make them believe that consumption of alcohol is cool, fashionable and healthy! I've always hated those stupid anecdotes about the French supposedly drinking wine since the age of 13 and also consuming it at breakfast! Such utter BS and lie!!! And they still persist into this modern day and age!!!

51. thanx. my famili r french islander idiots. veri fat unhealthi, unintelligent, ignorant, hot-headed, mentalli weak & spiritualli stupid peopl….that hav dishonored me 4 being an awakening human 2 this eternal philosophi……….THEY LOVE KILLING THEMSELVZ…I DON'T THINK THEY R STRONG ENUF NOT 2…….

52. Finland and France has similar animal food intake, yet Finns die 5 times more from heart disease. How can you infer causality from this data? There is no causality at all, because, well, saturated fat does not cause heart disease.

53. And your explanation for Finland? You had two severe outliers, remember? Mind you, the original claim sounds very much like a sales pitch. And there are various groups that want people in general to go vegetarian.

54. On 28.11.17 a documentry came out in German/French Television "Cholesterol the big fraud" just watch 15 min and this fallacy came up. Do we know why Finnland is doing so bad?

55. French portions of food are tiny. There's barely enough calories to power people all day even if the food is very rich.

56. It’s not what they eat-it’s how they eat it. They don’t have a cultural habit of binge eating. Case in point-they drink more alcohol by volume than the US but have lower rates of liver disease and alcohol related deaths. Because they drink virtually every day as part of regular meals rather than binging on it purely for the sake of getting drunk. Higher alcohol consumption-but lower alcohol abuse.

57. What do they report instead of ischemic heart disease?

58. Ah, that makes sense. I assumed it was their intake of plant foods was higher (you see so many pics of French farmer's markets ) plus a lot more walking and less obesity. But this clears up the matter.

59. Well the frensh have always had cheeses , croissants and cream in their diet. But have only recently bein introduced to the healthy american way of diet . So yeah, im sure we will see a decline in their health

60. thank you for the effort .. but you are extremely annoying

61. What about finland tho? Why are they so much more devastated? Is there a reason?

62. i want to go vegan, but i wanna eat ham and cheese. what do I do?

63. We French, we are generally in better health than the other nation (scientific fact) Why?

    Because we drink a glass of wine per meal. Our traditional food is excellent and natural. And above all, we do a lot more love than others.

64. FRENCH PARADOX my asshole… pseudo Dr greger…. TMAO is lowered because of OLIVE OIL , BALSEMIC VINEGAR ….. and you fucking MORON do not even know that basic shit, you vegan NAZI promoter

65. Getting fat doesn't take decades. Why are French people thinner?

66. You sound stupid AF, We have been eating Cheese and Animal products for hundreds of years. And been consuming the same amount of saturated fats. We just don't eat trashy food like the standard american diet. In france we actually care about the quality of food that we eat.
    No Shitty American fast food.

67. The French have only recently began eating a high fat diet?? Are you serious?? They've been cheese makers since the 13th century! Ha ha. Such weak epidemiological nonsense.

68. There is no correlation between animal fat consumption and heart disease.

69. Who else joining in 2019?

70. What about the Israeli Paradox? Allegedly they eat "heart healthy" diet yet have high rates of heart disease.

71. What about eric berg who got 0 in cac score

72. The Chinese Paradox. Dr. Greger always preaches the benefits of greens. Yet the Chinese diet includes no salads, greens,etc. But Chinese-Americans live on average 7 MORE years than white Americans. Why?

73. Well, there goes my excuse for being a wino.

74. I think the more sat-fat the richer the country and the higher quality of living, less stress maybe equals less heart disease. Edit: oh nevermind

75. Bear in mind no, non Seventh Dayest experiment, shows vegans live longer, fact. They sell there religion on health grounds, not controlled study.

76. You don’t still believe saturated fat is bad for you? Read The Big Fat Surprise. France especially historically ate and do eat rich real filling food. Americans eat processed crap that half the time leaves you hungry for more an hour later, that’s why you’re all fat 😂. Your idea of health food is a Subway: a sugary bread loaf pumped with air and yeast, spread over with sugary dressing, two lettuce leaves and two thin slices of the poorest quality meat imaginable. I remember our skinny Irish arses first experienced Subway in Boston in the summer of 2002 thinking it was great, but we quickly noticed a pattern of feeling hungry an hour after we’d eaten a foot-long, so we gave up going there. No offence but by and large the quality of food we encountered in The States was abysmal! Everything was processed. We were not used to eating such weak sauce. Real food leaves you feeling satisfied and happy with energy to spend many hours following not even thinking of food. Real food helps regulate your mood, your appetite, your hormones, your metabolism, your body and your mind. Real food, eating slowly, more walking, less junk, smaller portions different culture and lifestyle. That’s the french paradox. As a culture the French also like to cook, and people who cook on the average eat much better. It’s not the fat. Real food is good for you. Cut out the junk.

77. The French just picked it up? Seriously?

78. That graph you showed was from 50 years ago.
    The rates are actually lower today. All the way down to 30 per 100k.

    With USA's BEING 80 NICE RESEARCH BRO

79. The “French paradox” is such nonsense. I’ve heard from several French people that they (in particular women) are dieting all the time. They are more active as they use public transport and walk much more than the average American or Canadian whom are far more likely to be car dependent.

80. The situation is … when people eat food with full fat and not as many carbs they don’t get as fat usually. If anyone still remembers. Once upon a time in America people.. especially women were not as overweight there was not so much diabetes going around. From the late 1970’s and onward it started getting worse and worse and that is when the whole low fat nonsense started going around and whole wonderful grains are so good for you and so on. Saturated fat has gotten a bad wrap and the obesity epidemic is the result. Thing is when you consume a lot of fat (just like the French) you will not be hungry as often.. will stay full for longer. It’s not a miracle it’s just they still are eating the old fashioned way. Low fat dairy products by the way are pumped full of sugar to make them taste better. the west has been neglected of fat especially animal fat has been villainized but the real bad stuff besides sugar and carb abuse is vegetable oils. They are a real killer.

81. Oy, so much bunk. The French have eaten cheeses, meats and decadent desserts for ages. It's not a mystery. They take time to eat slowly, lunch is the main meal and takes hours. They eat what they genuinely enjoy, slowly, and only enough to feel sated, not full. They don't chug sodas, snack or rush through food. They walk everywhere, many also ride bikes. Food quality is extremely high, and most have tiny fridges because it's normal to buy fresh food every couple of days. It's a cultural and lifestyle shift from the way Americans live and eat, and view food. And it works.

82. +NutritionFacts.org; this HAS a very interesting topic, bit I was unable to watch more than about 45 seconds of this because whoever's doing the VO (narration) had a very odd – highly irritating habit of ending almost every word, and every sentence by so slurring their speech (or, more accurately, ssssssoooooo ssssssslllluuuirrrriiing…. well, you get it), I couldn't pay attention.

    I'm sure some people reading this will say (yawn) how; 1) rude, 2) insensitive I am (NO, I'm not. Your e to immature to understand what crucial is).

    If sssppoeeeakinbg like one's constantly falling asleep was a 'good' thing, you'd great a lot more professional voice over artists losing work to a person who sounds like they're contently Ankur to drop off.

    But, that's not the case.

    How about you write it a script, and rehearse it, if needed, use a sounding board – sometime who can give honest feedback.

    Otherwise ('otherwissssssseeee😫') this is unlistenable.

83. 2:01 Looking at the paper "Explaining the French Paradox" the full quotes contradict the message you're conveying.

    "Three areas of France that participated in the study appeared to have very low IHD death rates, but on investigation it transpired that some deaths that else-where would be attributed to IHD were in France described in some other (usually vaguer) way. This appears to contribute to the French paradox, but it does not wholly explain it, since even when the French death rates were cor-rected for this low bias they still remained relatively low (WHO Monica Project, 1994).

    Is it the wine?
    It seems, then, that the French really do have lower IHD death rates than might be expected from their fat in-take, serum cholesterol levels, blood pressures and smoking habits. Something about the French way of life must give them some protection from this disease."

    And from the second quote, What can we conclude: "The French paradox is exaggerated by under-reporting of IHD deaths but not entirely explained by it. Something about the French (and southern Euro-pean) lifestyle seems to protect against IHD, despite unfavourable factors such as fat intake, blood cholesterol, blood pressure and smoking habit."

84. One thing is for sure, French cuisine (except the dessert pastries) is gross. Most over-rated cuisine in the world.

85. There is no paradox. Fat is not bad for you, industrial food is bad for you. French, Italian, Spanish or other people that consume industrial food suffer from the same problems as Americans who eat industrial food.

86. Did you cite any source for your assertions, or did I perhaps miss it? Also what explains the Finnish experience? Ms. Nestle's comment actually supports the French paradox, i.e., the traditional French diet is much more heart healthy than the typical American diet.

87. BS, the French have been eating saturated fat at high levels for ages.

88. Headline in The Economist today: "France sees surprising surge in obesity." Q.e.d.

89. It’s only a paradox to people who believe the nonsensical associational “studies” that Dr. Gregor based his entire fraudulent worldview on. Anyone else would realize that the French are just eating a more healthful diet. It’s such a disingenuous thing to call everything that disproves your preconceived notions a “paradox,” when it’s actually just evidence that you’re wrong.

90. Alcohol is a poison. Don't get fooled by fake scientists and false data.
    Sobriety is a natural state of a person that is free from alcohol, nicotine and any other poisonous substances.

    Live Soberly, my friends!

91. However chronic diabetes is creeping up in France and has one of the highest rates amongst EU members. Maybe a little moderation in the carbs is needed.

92. So glad this is sorted out. And now that we are following the dietary guidelines here, I am so glad Americans enjoy excellent health.

93. Which doesn't explain why the French remain so slim, in spite of the fact they eat a lot of fats, desserts and breads. Additionally, wine is known to be good for keeping the arteries clear, even a couple of drinks a day will do that. They also eat in smaller quantities, and rarely "snack" or go through drive-throughs for junk food. The combination of sane and moderate eating make all the difference. But the fast food industry has recently been making the French fat, just like America, and it is alarming to them.

94. It’s the Raw cheeses and dairy! Pasteurization kills the miraculous properties of dairy and raw milk! The French Paradox is eating RAW dairy and cheeses!

95. Bro look at japan

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