Tipped Mixology: French Paradox

The French Paradox

A happy eater is a healthy eater

To start, I’d like to comment on a previous post: Eat whatever you want. I’m not trying to get on a milk crate and shout my diet opinions across the world, I’m just stating my opinion, which I feel is increasingly becoming a minority. If you want to eat nothing but white rice, white bread, chips, and candy all day, go for it if that makes you happy. The same goes if you want to sprinkle flax seed on your amaranth cereal floating in ice cold almond milk in the morning—this is your choice and I can’t stop you from making it. What I can do is have a commentary on the whole diet subject and throw my two cents in. If through reading these posts your decide to change your diet, that’s great! This, however, was never my goal.

The French paradox in a nutshell was an observation that while the French people as a whole ate an exorbitant amount of saturated fats (ie, butter, milk, cheese, etc) they had very low rates of cardiovascular disease compared to other nationalities. Let’s sum this up by saying that the French ate a lot of fat, drank a lot of wine, and were fit and healthy for doing so. What gives? If I started eating nothing but cheese and drank nothing but red wine all day long, I’d be in an early grave, but this isn’t all that goes into this paradox.