The French Paradox
Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
4.8 • 16.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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How an early-'90s newsmagazine show convinced a generation of Americans to start drinking red wine. For the antioxidants!
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- Alcohol, Drinking Pattern, and Chronic Disease
- The French paradox: lessons for other countries
- Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Deaths in the World Health Organization MONICA Project
- Coronary heart disease in France and in Europe: Where are the facts?
- Wine And Juice Management And Marketing Decisions: The Case Of The French Paradox
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- Wine, alcohol, platelets, and the French paradox for coronary heart disease
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- Death certificates are not reliable: revivification of the autopsy
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody and welcome to Maintenance Phase, the podcast that's going for its second |
| 0:14.8 | semester abroad and it's going to come back twice as in sufferable. |
| 0:18.8 | That's good. |
| 0:19.8 | Dude, I did study abroad when I was 19 and I realized years later that I was that person. |
| 0:26.6 | I was like, I'm so happy with the fact that you were the worst. |
| 0:29.8 | I was in Sydney. |
| 0:31.8 | Why would you eat Oreos when there are Tim Tams? |
| 0:37.0 | That one's accurate though. |
| 0:41.0 | I am like a Hobbs. |
| 0:42.2 | I am Aubrey Gordon. |
| 0:43.7 | If you would like to support the show, you can do that at patreon.com slash maintenance |
| 0:46.6 | phase or you can buy t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, whatever you like at T public. |
| 0:51.8 | Both of those are linked for you in the show notes. |
| 0:54.1 | And today, Michael, Aubrey, what are we discussing? |
| 0:57.5 | We are talking about the French paradox. |
| 1:02.2 | This came up when I was doing the research for our French women don't get fat episode. |
| 1:07.0 | And we were going to talk about it when we were recording for that. |
| 1:09.8 | But then I realized that adding it in would be me adding a bunch of filler to an episode |
| 1:16.6 | about a book that's full of filler. |
| 1:18.8 | I was like, maybe I'll just do a different episode. |
| 1:23.8 | So I spent the last couple weeks researching this. |
| 1:27.7 | So can you summarize really quickly, like, what is the French paradox? |
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