The French Paradox. “They eat all the
butter, cream, foie gras, pastry and cheese that their hearts desire, and yet
their rates of obesity and heart disease are much lower than ours. The French
eat three times as much saturated animal fat as Americans do, and only a third
as many die of heart attacks.” All sorts of hypotheses have been proposed. Curiosity about this is stimulating a sort of culture war. Salon