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Google for the "French paradox." The short version is that they are not really sure why, but they believe that it has to do with elements from the skins of the grape, and these elements are more prevelant in red wine. Also - daily consumption for benefit should be moderate. My doctor recommended unfiltered cabernets as likely to contain more of the beneficial elements. When I started, a lot of what I was buying tasted terrible (to me), you will need to try different ones until you find something that matches your taste and pocketbook. If you live anywhere reasonably near some moderate size wineries, a visit to the tasting room and talk with the folks there might be profitable - it certainly was for me when I vacationed in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia.

Jim

I think that reducing it to the consumption of wine is rather short sighted.

People in that area of France have a very slow paced lifestyle, low stress, and many other factors that beyond diet go far in explaining things...

Mike T, I've heard that the French (and most other Europeans) are more like ly to walk or bike than drive a car. True? This might also be a factor.

Dan-O

Yeah, motor-bikes...

Like I said, maybe in the South West or the Center there are still low stress villages like that where people drink red tannic wine and eat food cooked with goose fat.

Here in the south and in Paris (the two areas where most of France lives) there are few bicycles and everyone seems motor crazy... At least in Paris they have decent public transportation...

Sorry, gotta drive a mile down the road to fetch my daughter... ;-)

Cheers

First of all, I agree with Mike T. about the other factors involved. However, if one wants to get as much resveratrol (one of those compounds found in the skins of grapes that's been linked to numerous health benefits) as you can from wine, a paper published years ago in Nature found (surprisingly) that Pinot Noir contained greater quantitities than other red wines (FWIW).

Mark Lipton

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Which is surprising, since Pinot Noir is a thin skinned grape and resveratrol is supposed to come from grape skins. Not that I feel inclined to argue with Nature.

Carbonic Maceration wines are supposed to be the best wines when it comes to cardiovascular health. Do not forget that wine contains calories (about

80-100 Calories for a glass of red wine (1/6 of a 75cl bottle) and if someone is substituting plain water by red wine, they will gain weight, which is not very good from a cardiovascular point of view.

S.

All true, Santiago (good to read your notes here again, BTW). I am inclined to take a complex view of the relationship between wine consumption and health. One of the contributing factors IMO is that people who drink wine with meals are often those who savor their food, eating for pleasure as much as for nourishment. By eating slower, and by eating flavorful, nutritious foods, these people eat fewer calories, less fat and more complex carbohydrates -- all of which we know contribute to good cardiovascular health. As long as the wine consumption is moderate, it probably won't hurt those benefits. However, I am no doctor, just a humble (hah!) biomedical researcher, so take what I say with a few grains of salt...

Mark Lipton

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Go figure, I am a very humble marketing researcher. So take what I say with a ton of salt... ;-)

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