A free lunch..with red wine If you look at the fat consumption per person across the globe, which country would you guess heads the list? Probably the U.S' was the reflexive answer to my informal poll. Nyah. Wrong answer. We are the eighth on the list, as compiled by the Statistics division of the FAO. Heading the list isdrumroll, please, France. However, if you look at the incidence of coronary heart disease, probably much to the delight of the French, the French are well behind the U.S. The so-called French paradox' has long puzzled the rest of the world, or at least the parts that care ...
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