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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises'' -Samuel Butler T he French paradox is the observation of low coronary heart disease (CHD) death rates despite high intake of dietary cholesterol and saturated fat. 1 2 The French paradox concept was formulated by French epidemiologists 3 in the 1980s. France is actually a country with low CHD incidence and mortality (table The mean energy supplied by fat was 38% in Belfast and 36% in Toulouse in 1985-86. 4 More recently, in 1995-97, the percentage of energy from fat was 39% in Toulouse according to a representative population survey.
Jean Ferrières (Mon,) studied this question.