Friday, June 12, 2009

A red-wine, polyphenol, demonstrates significant health benefits

This chart shows resveratrol citations appearing on PubMed as a function of the year. Credit: Created by Hemant Poudyal, postgraduate studies, the University of Queensland
The benefits of alcohol are all about moderation. Low to moderate drinking - especially of red wine - appears to reduce all causes of mortality, while too much drinking causes multiple organ damage. A mini-review of recent findings on red wine's polyphenols, particularly one called resveratrol, will be published in the September issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research; the review is also available at Early View.

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Via: PhysOrg

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