What I Think About the French Paradox — As a Nutritional Sciences PhD

The French Paradox was described in 1993 in a paper indicating that **despite having high saturated fat and cholesterol intake, low cardiovascular-related death rates were found in the French population (**[**1**](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8252690/)**).** What makes this data paradoxical is that other industrialized countries with similar saturated fat and cholesterol intakes showed higher rates of heart disease deaths.)