Posted by bluedog on November 19, 2002, at 9:56:09
I have posted this in PB and Not PSB because I believe this post relates to diet and and supplements with vitamins and anti-oxidants and it appears that these topics are usually discussed on PB.
Heres a link to a thought provoking article about the so called "french paradox". This article challenges the currently accepted explanations for the french paradox and thereby also challenges my personal beliefs about my current anti-oxidant and vitamin regime.
see http://www.redflagsweekly.com/kendrick/2002_nov14.html
The french parodox was a term coined to describe the apparent contradiction between the consumption of high levels of so called "Bad Foods" for coronary heart disease (CHD) and the claimed low rate of CHD in France.
This article argues that it's not WHAT you eat so much as HOW you eat that really matters. My first thoughts about this article were if conventional wisdom explaining the french paradox can be challenged in relation to CHD, why not extrapolate the arguments and apply the same arguments to depression and other mental illnesses that have been linked to diet to some degree.
I have not done any further research myself but I wonder if there is also a french paradox in relation to rates of depression.
Food for Thought
poster:bluedog
thread:128270
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20021116/msgs/128270.html