The Cholesterol Factor in Heart Disease
Cardiovascular disease — which includes heart attacks and stroke — remains the leading cause of mortality in the developed world. However some countries fare far worse than others. Britain has one of the highest rates of heart disease in the European Union, and the rate is higher than in the United States or Australia. According to a recent World Health Organization report, Irishmen and Scotsmen are three times more likely to die of coronary artery disease than their French counterparts. Their partners are even worst off; women in Belfast or Glasgow are nine times more likely to die of a heart attack than their French sisters.
The fact that Aberdonians are so much more at risk than the citizens of Toulouse is known as the French Paradox. French cuisine, in some areas at least, is at least as rich as Scottish fare. A diet replete with full fat (not to mention unpasteurized) cheese, cream and pate de fois gras is not really what the doctor ordered — and yet the French, most unfairly, and even despite those appalling French cigarettes, seem to be able to get away with it.
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