Life-Extending Chemical Is Found in Certain Red Wines

New York Times ^ | NICHOLAS WADE

[nickcarraway]

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[nickcarraway]

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[zoobeach]

My Grandmother has been drinking a glass or two of red wine for as long as I can remember. She just celebrated her 101st birthday.

[nickcarraway]

nice.

[YaYa123]

Peel me a grape!

http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~ffh/resvera.html

[nickcarraway]

http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~ffh/resvera.html

[tdadams]

it would be many years before any drug based on the new findings became available

Leave it to pharmaceutical companies to entice people to forget about enjoying a nice glass of wine and just popping a pill instead.

[billb]

So, instead of having a drinking problem, I'm just another health nut? Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

[Sapper26]

Why couldn't it be beer? Life is truly unfair.

[dawn53]

Here's some good news for you.

The article is entitled: "Health Benefits of Beer"

http://nd.essortment.com/beerhealthbene_rryq.htm

So if you want to be "really healthy", drink the beer, just make sure you have a glass of red wine too, LOL.

[Fresh Wind]

I notice the article states that beer drinking promotes urination. Funny, I've noticed that too.

[PropheticZero]

So if its just the skins of the grapes as this fellow is theorizing, why not just eat grapes? Or is it a matter or concentration. Cause I like grapes better than red wine, but I wouldn't be opposed to tiping back a few to add a couple years to my life. People in bibilical times were definitely drinking a lot of grape wine (alchoholic or not), maybe they new some things we don't.

[xJones]

So, instead of having a drinking problem, I'm just another health nut? Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

LOL! We will have to really work out for the big time. After all, this makes winos the top seed, or whatever.

[bethelgrad]

The ever so pius Paul Harvey says grape juice has the same effect. I'd take a mild glass of red wine.

[dogbyte12]

Why couldn't the companies that produce blush wines just sell all their unused skins out, dried, powdered in capsule form as a supplement?

Basically, white wines are produced by green grapes. Red wines by red/purple grapes, blush wines like a white zinfandel are produced by removing the skins of red grapes before fermenting the wine.

They must have tons of this stuff they aren't using. I am sure it gets resold for some purpose, but this probably could be more profitable.

[N. Theknow]

Awright!

Now if I could just remember where I put it.

[carlo3b]

There is a tiny mountain town in southern Italy that the townsfolk are infamous for their longevity. They share a few common traits.. they have a slow paced, uncomplicated life, they enjoy a long sexually healthy marriages, they eat a fresh food diet, they live and work at a relatively high altitude, and enjoy a very high consumption of their own native wine.. so the answer must be the wine.. huh?
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[Flying Circus]

In biblical times I don't believe there was any such thing as 'non-alchoholic grape wine'. Without pasturization, grape juice becomes alchoholic right quick... and the folks back then didn't have any odd notions about stopping the process.

[Flying Circus]

But what kind of grape juice?? The article says that the concentration of resveratrol varies with the variety of wine. Interestingly, no mention in the article of the researchers wrking on the project saying they picked up drinking a glass of grape juice a day. They did say that resveratrol is very volitile and leaves the wine within a day of uncorking, it wouldn't be surprising to me if the process of pasturization- which is the only reason grape juice stays juice without fermenting- drives out or distroys any resveratrol it had contained.