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- From: mazur@bluefin.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur)
- Subject: Re: Wine & The Heart (LDLs)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.145610.12401@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
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- References: <1992Dec21.150757.1468@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:56:10 GMT
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- jil@donuts0.bellcore.com (Jamie Lubin) writes:
- >A few months back, there were some postings re wine & the heart. I recently
- >came across the following:
- >
- >"The beneficial affect that drinking red wine has on the heart can also be
- >gained by drinking grape juice, according to recent studies.
-
- This month's McCalls magazine (I know, rates right up there with the NEJM)
- has an article that discusses the benefits and drawbacks to various
- diets. They made two comments about the French and wine in their diet that
- are interesting. One is that cirrhosis of the liver is twice as common
- in France as in the US. The other is that the French have not been eating
- a high-fat diet as long as Americans have--the implication is that heart
- disease in France could eventually be as high there as it is here now.
-
- If one already eats a low-fat, high-fiber, diet a la the new food pyramid,
- then drinking wine (in moderate quantities) or grape juice for its
- resveratrol probably won't hurt.
-
- Beth Mazur "...life is more than a vision. The sweetest
- mazur@inmet.inmet.com part is acting after making a decision."
- ...!uunet!inmet!mazur -- The Indigo Girls
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