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19. Heart disease is a much less problem in France than it is in United States and other industrialized countries, despite a high consumption of saturated fats in France. One theory is that this lower rate heart disease is due to the fact that the French drink more wine. This so-called French paradox heightened an interest in moderate wine drinking. Figure
a. Draw a
b. Do the data support the theory that wine consumption lowers the heart disease rate?
Country | Wine Consumption (liters per person) |
Annual Deaths from Heart Disease per
|
Australia | 2.5 | 211 |
Austria | 3.9 | 167 |
Belgium | 2.9 | 131 |
Canada | 2.4 | 191 |
Denmark | 2.9 | 220 |
Finland | 0.8 | 297 |
France | 9.1 | 71 |
Iceland | 0.8 | 211 |
Ireland | 0.6 | 300 |
Italy | 7.9 | 107 |
Netherlands | 1.8 | 266 |
New Zealand | 1.9 | 266 |
Norway | 0.8 | 227 |
Spain | 6.5 | 86 |
Sweden | 1.6 | 207 |
Switzerland | 5.8 | 115 |
United Kingdom | 1.3 | 285 |
United States | 1.2 | 199 |
West Germany | 2.7 | 172 |
Figure 4.157 Wine consumption and heart disease. Source: New York Times,
December 28, 1994.
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