The French Paradox Reddy Wines!

The French Paradox is the observation that French people suffer a relatively low incidence of coronary heart disease, despite having a diet relatively rich in saturated fats.^[1] The term French Paradox was coined by Dr. Serge Renaud, a scientist from Bordeaux University in France.^[2]

When a description of this paradox was aired in the United States on 60 Minutes in 1991 with the speculation that red wine decreases the incidence of cardiac diseases, the consumption of red wine increased 44% and some wineries began lobbying for the right to label their products "health food."^[3]

The authors of a review of dietary studies concluded that there was insufficient evidence to establish a causal link between consumption of saturated fats and coronary heart disease risk,^[4] and statistics collected by the WHO from 1990–2000 show that the incidence of heart disease in France may have been underestimated, and may in fact be similar to that of neighboring countries.^[3]

 

^{Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Paradox}