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The Red Wine Diet: Drink Wine Every Day, and Live a Long and Healthy Life
Wine is good for you, and we finally know why.
Wine drinkers are less prone to heart disease, diabetes, and dementia than non- wine drinkers. But what exactly is it about wine that keeps us healthy? Which is better for you, a California Cabernet or Syrah from the south of France? How can you choose wines that both suit your tastes and benefit your health?
In a landmark study, Roger Corder revealed that compounds called procyanidins are the key components of wine for preventing illness. Now, in The Red Wine Diet, he argues that drinking the right kinds of red wine and eating procyanidin-rich foods such as dark chocolate, apples, and berries can help us live to a ripe old age-while enjoying all the pleasures of life.
Corder's own tests show that, as a result of grape variety, wine-making style, and other factors, some red wines contain much higher levels of procyanidins than others. With a unique personal rating system, he describes the most beneficial wines he's found to date. And to round out his lifestyle plan, he includes fifty delicious recipes featuring foods that are high in procyanidins.
Corder's prescription is an easy pill to swallow: Drink red wine every day and live a long and healthy life.
Wine drinkers are less prone to heart disease, diabetes, and dementia than non- wine drinkers. But what exactly is it about wine that keeps us healthy? Which is better for you, a California Cabernet or Syrah from the south of France? How can you choose wines that both suit your tastes and benefit your health?
In a landmark study, Roger Corder revealed that compounds called procyanidins are the key components of wine for preventing illness. Now, in The Red Wine Diet, he argues that drinking the right kinds of red wine and eating procyanidin-rich foods such as dark chocolate, apples, and berries can help us live to a ripe old age-while enjoying all the pleasures of life.
Corder's own tests show that, as a result of grape variety, wine-making style, and other factors, some red wines contain much higher levels of procyanidins than others. With a unique personal rating system, he describes the most beneficial wines he's found to date. And to round out his lifestyle plan, he includes fifty delicious recipes featuring foods that are high in procyanidins.
Corder's prescription is an easy pill to swallow: Drink red wine every day and live a long and healthy life.
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336 pages, Paperback
First published September 6, 2007
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January 20, 2018
The guy likes red wine. Want to feel justified liking red wine too? Read this book.
May 16, 2024
As if we needed another reason to drink wine
January 1, 2011
I picked this up for a dollar after splurging on a case of Italian reds for Bob for Christmas. (You know--we must do our research for Italy next summer.) Having just finished chapter four, it's been a dollar well-spent. I just want you to know that this is NOT a fad-diet book--the author states, in the second paragraph of chapter one, and again at the end of that same chapter that the Red Wine Diet "is a healthy eating plan that does not require you to drink wine or other alcoholic beverages to enjoy it's benefits." Whatever. I am enjoying discovering what it is about some red wines (not all) that seem to make them so beneficial to our health--and as well that foods like walnuts, pomegranates, cranberries, some dark chocolate (depending on how it's processed), some apples, and cinnamon have these same health properties.
And forget about resveratrol. (One would need to drink lethal doses to realize a significant health benefit.) (Huh???)
The secret--a special group of flavanoids called procyanidins, or, proanthocyanidins. The author is talking primarily about effects on vascular health here--procyanidin's effects on epithilium-dependent vasodilation (um, this is a good thing). Sardinia and a study of the Seventh-Day Adventists in California (also mentioned in The Blue Zones) are mentioned.
Recipes for procyanidin-rich foods are included, as well as a rating list for the most procyanidin-rich reds throughout the world.
Glad one of my New Years resolutions last year was to drink more reds--salut!
And forget about resveratrol. (One would need to drink lethal doses to realize a significant health benefit.) (Huh???)
The secret--a special group of flavanoids called procyanidins, or, proanthocyanidins. The author is talking primarily about effects on vascular health here--procyanidin's effects on epithilium-dependent vasodilation (um, this is a good thing). Sardinia and a study of the Seventh-Day Adventists in California (also mentioned in The Blue Zones) are mentioned.
Recipes for procyanidin-rich foods are included, as well as a rating list for the most procyanidin-rich reds throughout the world.
Glad one of my New Years resolutions last year was to drink more reds--salut!
September 2, 2012
Take parts out that you like. Any reason to drink red wine is good for me.
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