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The French paradox refers to the fact that people in France suffer relatively low incidence of coronary heart disease, despite their diet being rich in saturated fats. 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 others all over the world. The French eat three times as much saturated animal fat as Americans do and only a third as many die of heart attacks. According to FAO data, the average French person consumed 108 grams per day of fat from animal sources in 2002 while the averag...

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