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Originally Posted by golddust
Thank you Dr. Terri!!!
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For the heart, red wine is better than gin. When it comes to the heart, red wine is still the drink of choice as compared to gin, according to a new study. Alcohol in general has been shown to have some heart-protective properties, when consumed in moderate amounts. Moderate alcohol is defined as one drink a day for women and one to two drinks a day for men. Although alcohol, and red wine in particular, can protect the heart in moderate amounts, physicians often do not recommend drinking for patients who do not already consume alcohol. For people who drink, red wine appears to have the most effect on the heart when compared to beer or spirits. In the latest study, conducted by researchers at Jefferson medical College, red wine was more effective than gin in lowering inflammatory markers in the blood. The study was published in a recent issue of Atherosclerosis. Inflammatory markers are a substance that the body releases in response to inflammation. Inflammatory markers (called biomarkers) have been associated with risk factors for atherosclerosis, which can lead to heart disease and stroke. Some markers, such as C-reactive protein, may indicate the severity of cardiovascular disease. Red wine is consistently more effective in reducing these biomarkers than gin. This may be because red wine contains complex substances, such as polyphenols, which do not appear in gin or other alcoholic beverages. The researchers noted that although evidence points to some heart-protective benefits of alcoholic beverages in general, this evidence is not direct and doesn't necessarily prove that alcohol directly combats the development of atherosclerosis. |
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BYLINE: BYRN, ANNE Anne Byrn FOOD EDITOR STAFF DATE: January 23, 1992 PUBLICATION: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution EDITION: The Atlanta Constitution The Atlanta Journal SECTION: FEATURES PAGE: C/1 Terri and Conrad XXXX have long enjoyed sipping a glass of white wine together during dinner. But that was before "60 Minutes" aired a "French Paradox" segment in mid-November, linking French red wine consumption to lower rates of heart disease. Now the Atlanta couple's wine of choice is red, even though "Conrad doesn't like the taste of red wine," his wife admits. "We watch cholesterol. We cook with olive oil. We eat lots of garlic. If drinking red wine will help, too, then we'll most definitely make that effort." The xxxxxs aren't alone. An informal survey of Atlanta wine merchants and sommeliers found that more people are switching to red wine as a result of that program. Ed True at Tower Beer and Wine on Piedmont Road in Buckhead sold 29 cases of red wine the Monday morning after the show. And according to Information Resources of Chicago, U.S. grocery-store sales of cabernet sauvignon red wine were up 45 percent for the four-week period following the broadcast. The report linked the opulent French diet - triple-cream cheeses, goose fat and red wine - with the strange irony that the French are only one-third as likely as Americans to die of a heart attack. But a positive correlation between moderate red wine consumption and lowered cholesterol is nothing new to the medical community. Cornell University scientists have identified the substance in red wine as resveratrol, a compound that allows grapes to resist fungal disease. It comes from grape skins and is found mainly in red wine because in production these wines have the most contact with their skins. At R.J.'s Wine Bar in Virginia-Highland, Rob Campbell says he has seen "a lot less white wine sold" at the trendy watering hole. |
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Originally Posted by golddust
Thank you Dr. Terri!!!
golddust |
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Originally Posted by golddust
I'm not doubting the findings but, there's just got to be more recent studies than this.
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Wine or beer? Both equal higher blood pressure. Red wine might be considered good for overall health, but it raises blood pressure nearly as much as beer does, Australian researchers reported on Monday. People at risk of high blood pressure should not switch to red wine in the hope of being able to drink more, they concluded. "A positive relationship between alcohol consumption and blood pressure is well established, but the relative effect of specific alcoholic beverages is controversial," said Renate Zilkens of the University of Western Australia, who led the study. Some drinkers may have hoped that red wine's antioxidant compounds could counteract the effects of alcohol in raising blood pressure. But, writing in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension, Zilkens and colleagues said they found no such effect in 24 healthy, non-smoking men. All the men, aged 20 to 65, said they drank alcohol daily but had normal blood pressure and no history of heart disease. For the experiment the men abstained from all alcohol for two weeks and then took either another month of abstinence, 375 ml (13 ounces) of red wine a day, de-alcoholized red wine, or 1125 ml (38 ounces) of beer. Each man cycled through all four groups over four months. When drinking beer, the men had on average a higher systolic blood pressure (the first number in a blood pressure reading) of 2.9 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). Daily wine drinking raised systolic pressure by an average of 1.9 mm Hg. Beer also increased the sleeping heart rate by five beats a minute on average while wine made it go up by more than four beats a minute. "The advice to drinking men 'at risk' of hypertension and those with hypertension is to drink less than two drinks per day," said Zilkens. "At that level they will still benefit from the HDL ("good") cholesterol-raising effect and anti-coagulant properties of alcohol which are considered to be protective of the heart." Publish Date: April 20, 2005 |