French paradox solved?

Taka · Guest

French paradox redux? US vs. French on being full

It's the French paradox redux: Why don't the French get as fat as
Americans, considering all the baguettes, wine, cheese, pate and
pastries they eat?

Because they use internal cues -- such as no longer feeling hungry --
to stop eating, reports a new Cornell study. Americans, on the other
hand, tend to use external cues -- such as whether their plate is
clean, they have run out of their beverage or the TV show they're
watching is over.

"Furthermore, we have found that the heavier a person is -- French or
American -- the more they rely on external cues to tell them to stop
eating and the less they rely on whether they felt full," said senior
author Brian Wansink, the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing and
director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab in the Department of
Applied Economics and Management, now on leave to serve as executive
director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Center for Nutrition
Policy and Promotion until January 2009.

The new study, an analysis of questionnaires from 133 Parisians and
145 Chicagoans about how they decide when to stop eating, is being
published in the journal Obesity and is being presented this later
month at an the Winter Marketing Educators conference.

"Over-relying on external cues to stop eating a meal may prove useful
in offering a partial explanation of why body mass index [a
calculation based on the relationship of weight to height] varies
across people and potentially across cultures," said co-author Collin
Payne, a Cornell postdoctoral researcher. He stressed that further
studies should following up with smoking behavior and socio-economic
differences as well. "Relying on internal cues for meal cessation,
rather than on external cues, may improve eating patterns in the long
term.

SOURCE: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/cfb-fpr021508.php#

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TC · Guest

On Mar 4, 2:46 am, Taka <taka0...@gmail.com> wrote:

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On Mar 5, 2:17 pm, Ron Peterson <r...@shell.core.com> wrote:

Guest · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject: Re: French paradox solved?

What's your point, Ron? Unless they ate huge amounts of pork relative
to Americans, this is not likely to make much of a difference.
Instead, the way science is supposed to work is that you present a
hypothesis, then test it or at least attempt to get funding (if that
is a possibility). If the oxidative stress/free radical damage/
arachidonic acid overload/antioxidant deficiency kind of hypothesis is
correct, one simple study would be to measure the reactive molecules
generated by the supposedly typical French diet relative to its
American counterpart, correct? Since PUFAs are very reactive
biochemically whereas saturated fatty acids have the opposite effect,
one should do a study on this specifically, though the evidence up to
this point is so strong (just the raw demographic data alone is
conclusive in terms of invalidating claims against "saturated fat").
As it stands, my diet is the "ultimate paradox diet," with as much
sugar and salt as I like, and as much saturated fatty acids as I can
ingest without it affecting taste (and very little PUFAs). Not only I
am fine, 7 years after beginning this "experiment," but I also
overcame an affliction that almost killed me. If anyone should have
died of a diet that most American "experts" would deem horrendous, it
should have been me. Instead, all the people I see with serious
medical issues are consuming PUFA-rich and usually meat-rich diets,
and this makes perfect sense - if you are willing to examine the
molecular-level evidence (and assuming that you understand it).