The French Paradox: What is it?

Back in the late 1980s, there was an expression widely used that went something like this: "Hey, it's good for my heart, right?" This was the time when experts were telling us a glass of red wine per day was actually good for you, so go ahead and enjoy it. This impression coined also in the late 1980s the phrase: "The French Paradox." I even got aboard during that time and was out tasting red wines, even buying bottles of red wine and then added a piece of cheese for a late night snack even.....

The "French Paradox" refers to the notion that drinking wine may explain the relatively low rates of heart disease among the French people despite how much they liked cheese and other rich, fatty foods. It was supposed the red wine helped them to stave off heart disease from all the other negative foods they loved to eat which could cause heart disease. Just top everything off with a glass of red wine and don't worry about heart disease from anything else you eat kind of thinking.

The French Paradox theory also started the discovery of a host of beneficial plant compounds known as "polyphenols." Polyphenols turns out to be plentiful in red and purple grape skins as well as other fruits, vegetables and nuts, but the keen thing about this discovery was that polyphenols in foods had heart-protecting properties. This meant wine was made from red and purple grape skins, especially red wine and so therefore red wine must be a great tool to help us stave off heart disease. It was an alcohol drink we could drink without feeling guilty.

Another argument came from the fact that the Mediterranean diet helped to ward off heart attacks and strokes and in fact featured "red wine."

Today, new research tells us the evidence of drinking red wine in particular or alcohol in general can help you avoid heart disease is not very strong at all. In fact, a person who does not drink alcohol and may be prone to "addictions" could  become addicted to alcohol just thinking what they were doing was good for their heart. This is the category I fell  into. However, I stopped the practice before becoming an alcoholic. I suppose had I enjoyed alone the buzz from the alcohol, I might have continued on increasing my intake until I was addicted.

Moderate drinking is defined as one drink per day for healthy women and two drinks per day for healthy men and is still widely considered SAFE. However, to this date in 2018 the health effects of alcohol have never tested in long term been true to helping us prevent any kind of disease let alone heart disease. On the flip side of that, there are some studies that suggest wine is better for the heart than beer or hard liquor, so if you are going to enjoy alcohol, the jury votes and tells us wine is probably the least harmful to our health. 

People who drink wine are more likely to drink it as part of a healthy pattern such as a glass or two with a special meal. Whereas hard liquor like beer, whiskey all the rest are drank by those who's sole purpose is to feel the "buzz."

Conclusion: If you enjoy red wine, be sure to limit yourself to moderate amounts. Measure out 5 ounces which is one serving of red wine. Use a regular measuring cup to measure your serving and then pour it into your favorite goblet.

Me being a collector, of course, I collected some pretty goblets for my heart health drinking routine! Believe it or not one serving gave me a buzz. I suppose if a person is use to drinking, or like with any other drug, as you continue to drink, it takes more and more to give you a buzz. Fortunately, I stopped the red wine drinking routine before it took more than just one serving to give me a buzz, and I really was not after the buzz to begin with.

Source: Harvard Health Newsletter February 2018

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