Health Benefits of Red Wine
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Written by Paul Wolf
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Experts tell us it's the flavonoids in red wine, not the alcohol, that explains why French arteries don't clog on a high-fat diet. Not to mention they eat small portions and don't snack.
Nature tends to forgive the Frenchman's love of rich sauces as long as he maintains his regular intake of red wine. Now we know why.
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It's not the alcohol, but rather the flavonoids that thin the effect of the rich, white  sauces the French so love.
Like antioxidants, flavonoids reduce platelet clotting in the blood and raise high-density lipoproteins (HDL), the so-called good cholesterol.
These benefits help explain why the French have less cardiovascular disease than Americans even though they eat far more saturated fat and cholesterol.
But before you thank researchers at University of California at Davis for solving the French Paradox, know that they also discovered that an alcohol-free wine substitute raised flavonoid levels higher and kept them in the bloodstream longer than did the red wine with alcohol. Related Items
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