Wine Is Good For You (Again... For Now)
Filed in archive Wine News on October 30, 2007
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I'm sure that tomorrow there will be a headline warning us that wine increases the risk of some such disease, because that's the way things seem to go (and not just with wine, with anything - eggs, chocolate, coffee... pretty much everything I enjoy). But for now, I get to write about the positive health benefits of wine again, thanks to the polyphenols it contains. Of course, that's only partially true because you'd need to drink far more wine per day than is recommended in order to get the health benefits.
From Science Daily:
According to the authors, the amount of polyphenols necessary to obtain an anti-cancer effect is the equivalent of drinking about a bottle of red wine each day. This amount of daily alcohol consumption obviously is unhealthy, but the research suggests that polyphenols extracted from plants or red wine could be converted into a pill that is highly likely to be safe. Such a pill also would be relatively easy and inexpensive to create and deliver.Nevertheless, it's interesting and I think shows that wine can be a beneficial part of one's diet. I have to imagine that every little bit helps.
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