Red Wine

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

And I thought this is all about red wine.

I know...they have no respect for a good Shiraz or Merlot. Eating pips and skins indeed.
By and by Sandy, Daddy Georg and I need a wine bottle or wine glass smiley please.

[Bertie Horak]

Don't know what happens to resveratrol when the jam is made (boiling), and what's the use - little resveratrol, taken with heaps of sugar which increases by-products and metabolites???

I don't think so ---- rather stick to the wine!!

[Mike Stenson (RIP)]

Red wine protects your arteries

Red wine, to an extent, counteracts the ill effects that cigarette smoking causes, a new study has shown.

But, researchers warn, this is not a license to ignore the dangers of smoking. The study stresses the benefits of the antioxidants found in wine, and these protect against the worst damage cigarettes can cause.


Polyphenols a powerful antioxidant
The researchers used a non-alcoholic red wine for these tests. This was a Greek wine, from which they had removed the alcohol. The wine is rich in polyphenols, says John Lekakis, a researcher from the Alexandra University Hospital in Athens.

The wines were subjected to taste tests, in which it was found that the normal wine and the non-alcoholic version were very similar, and that volunteers could not distinguish which of the two types they were drinking.

The test involved just 16 adults and the aim of the test was to look at the effects of cigarette smoking on the arteries. Three tests were conducted: the first after the smoking of one cigarette, the second after drinking two glasses of red wine and smoking one cigarette and the third, drinking two glasses of non-alcoholic red wine and smoking one cigarette.

Alcohol not the healing factor
Researchers found that two glasses of wine – it made no difference from which bottle it came – counteracted the effects of the cigarette smoking on the artery function.

"Since the presence or absence of alcohol on the two types of wine didn't influence the results, we can conclude that constituents of red wine other than alcohol are responsible for the reversal of arterial dysfunction caused by smoking," Lekakis says in a press release.

But he does not recommend drinking two glasses of red wine for every cigarette you smoke. This can bring about health problems of its own. The study's results have increased knowledge on how smoking damages arteries and which substances could partially reverse this.

[Richard Opperman]

Red, red wine makes me feel fine - wise words from the 70s and 80s!

[SandyB]

Come now Richard  sing it like Niel Diamond did !

[Gordon Brown]

We are always being told red wine is good for you. Look at the French they say. Lowest heart attack rate in the world. Once asked what they die of. Guess what. Liver disease. Take more than that to get me off the bottle!!

[georg ruf jr.]

Have you been to a Frensh market or supermarket Gordon? What I like most there is, rensh loaf, fresh fish, veg and salad, cheese, ham and salami. Fantastic. Adding a good bottle of wine and the day is perect.
Well, almost.

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

Snippet from the Essentials magazine that I read last night:

"Scientists in the US have found that the resveratrol is the key ingredient in red wine that gives it its anti-cancer properties. Allow yourself two glasses a day!"

I think I'd prefer the jam though!

[Rhona]

The jam all wrapped up in a do-nut........mmm! 

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

I prefer cream doughnuts!

[bobbysmith]

does marmalade have the same properties,i love jam n bread,and marmalade on toast in the morning with a fine cup of freshly perculated coffee,ive tried quassaunts[spelt wrongly me tinks]other continental things but keep those english things ,also like a good cup of strong tea

[Rhona]

hot toast and nutella chocolate spread - was taught that trick in South Africa.........mmm! mmmm!

[bobbysmith]

peanut butter and apricott jam,the mother of all tastes

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

I reckon marmalade is better because it's got fruit peel in it. You can keep your coffee though, a cup of green tea in the morning at work does me just fine!

I couldn't figure out what your quassaunts was at first - croissants!  202

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

Shannon wanted peanut butter and grated cheese the other day, I asked her after school how it was and she reckons marmite and cheese is better!

Have you tried marmite, avocado and grated cheese? Mmmm,mmmm!