Wine & Your Health

A little is good for you

Data from the Copenhagen City Heart Study, published in 1995, found that subjects who consumed wine daily were much less likely to die during the 12-year study period than abstainers or consumers of other beverages with alcohol..

While heart disease reduction and other health-related findings are applicable to all beverages containing alcohol, some research has found advantages specifically for wine drinkers. In a landmark Danish study published in 1995, researchers for the Copenhagen City Heart Study found wine drinkers to have clear health advantages over nondrinkers or moderate drinkers of other beverages. "Our finding, that only wine drinking clearly reduces both the risk of dying from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease and the risk of dying from other causes," wrote Morten Gronbaek and colleagues in the British Medical Journal, "suggests that other more broadly acting factors in wine may be present."

Dr Jean-Paul Brouster of France says carbernet sauvignon is the most healthy. He refereces to the cabernet sauvignon of Bordeaux as containing the hightest concentration of resveratrol and quercitin which are benifical to the heart

Resveratrol,
the compound (?) in red wine that keeps your blood platlettes 'slippery' and keeps those old arteries
from clogging up, is found to be most prominent in Pinot Noir. Not only in Pinot Noir,
BUT Ontario Pinot Noir!
Linda Bramble

Canadian red wines may actually be naturally healthful. According to wine writer Natalie MacLean, cool-climate wines contain slightly higher levels of resveratrol, an antioxidant believed to help prevent cancer and cardiovascular disease.

May I suggest that now is a good time to take a walk to your local wine store and purchase a fine bottle of Canadian Wine. A glass or two with dinner could improve your health. It may even prolong your life.

"I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles."
-A Bishop of Seville

"In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary."
-Ernest Hemingway, "A Moveable Feast"

Red wine halves men's prostate cancer risk!

research by by Janet L. Stanford at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer " We found that men who consumed four or more glasses of red wine per week reduced their risk of prostate cancer by 50 percent. Among men who consumed four or more 4-ounce glasses of red wine per week, we saw about a 60 percent lower incidence of the more aggressive types of prostate cancer. The more clinically aggressive prostate cancer is where the strongest reduction in risk was observed," Stanford said.

There are also studies that show that wine drinkers have the lowest incidence of colon cancer, only 1 percent as against eighteen percent of beer drinkers and twelve percent in non-drinkers