Walnuts are a regular part of French cuisine. A Loma Linda University study showed that men who consumed walnuts in place of other foods at least four times a week had less risk of developing heart disease. Americans consume 2.9 snacks after lunch compared to the French, who eat 1.1 snacks. Americans tend to eat their largest meal after work and exercise. Because of their alcohol consumption, the French are three times more likely than Americans to die of cancer of the esophagus, two times more likely to die from stomach cancer, and two times more likely to have cirrhosis of the liver and liver disease.
French women are five times more likely to have accidents and commit suicides.
Fifteen per cent of the French are alcoholics and another 15 per cent use alcohol at dangerous levels. Ethyl alcohol, sometimes referred to as ethanol, is the excrement of yeast. The process, of course, is fermentation. The yeast feeds on sugar until its alcohol content reaches about 13 or 14 per cent. At this point, the yeast dies of acute alcohol intoxication the very first victim of alcoholism.