Posted on 12/17/2004 2:25:19 PM PST by Rodney King
Chocolate, wine can aid heart By Sharon Labi December 17, 2004
A DAILY meal of seven ingredients including wine and chocolate could cut heart disease by 76 per cent, Australian researchers have found.
The diet comprising wine, fish, dark chocolate, fruit, vegetables, almonds and garlic, would also increase life expectancy by more than six years in men and five years in women.
Researchers at Monash University, in Victoria, and the Erasmus University Medical Centre, in The Netherlands, studied the effects of the "polymeal" to see if its benefits could match those of a polypill.
Research last year into a polypill found the combination of drugs in one dose could reduce heart disease by more than 80 per cent.
Dr Anna Peeters of Monash University said the meal was almost as effective as the pill.
"We found that if you took this kind of meal and this combination of ingredients, that you'd have an increase in total life expectancy, and for men it was about six and a half years and for women it was about five years," she told AAP.
"If you take this polymeal idea, then you get more years free of cardiovascular disease and less years with cardiovascular disease and that was quite a significant finding."
The seven foods were picked for their benefits on cardiovascular disease, and although olive oil was known to be good for the heart, not enough solid data was available to include it, Dr Peeters said.
But the inclusion of wine and chocolate was good news, especially in the lead-up to Christmas.
"It's been known for a long time that they are both beneficial for cardiovascular disease, they have antioxidant properties," Dr Peeters said.
"On their own, the level of effect is only 14-20 per cent but it's in combination with all these others that you get such a big reduction (in cardiovascular disease) of 76 per cent."
However, it was not open slather on the ingredients: the recommended daily intake was 150ml for wine and 100g for dark chocolate.
Apart from running the risk of boring the palate, eating a diet of only seven ingredients required further study.
"We're not advocating that people should take this particular set of ingredients for the rest of their lives. It was more a paper to illustrate that using a dietary combination, you could get effects similar to pharmaceutical combinations," Dr Peeters said.
"It's really just to show that a healthy diet potentially can have the same effects as a polypill."
Dr Peeters said the polymeal was an effective, non-pharmacological, safe, cheap and tasty alternative to the polypill.
The research was published in this week's British Medical Journal.
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YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:-D
Well, you can always melt some hershey bars and pour it into your wine.
I don't recall colder than 9 here in the Grove. I have been whining to the Mister all summer that we were/are going to have a hard winter. We've had wooly worms since August, mild weather since June, rain rain and more rain all summer and fall.
TG D got the generator fired up and gassed up yesterday and we have tons of wood.
I'll be watching the radar for you!
They keep changing their minds so much about the danged weather..........
but at least the weather people are being honest, for a change, they admit THEY DON'T KNOW when, where or what this storm is going to turn into.......
Better send R. out for more wine and chocolate, if I want to have a baby next Christmas!
Damit all, I just finished two shots of Bourbon - now I gotta drink some wine? Life is so unfair.
So DIE, all you diabetic alcoholics! DIE! DIE! DIE!
I'm allergic to wine, so I get double helpings of chocolate!
Good Grief, woman!!!!!!!!!
All kidding aside, I actually enjoy chocolate with beer. I had an urge for chocolate last week and was out of any kind of candy in the house..............I had to go buy more chocolate chips for baking...LOL
You need to do those beer floats, woman! Save steps!
I don't like beer.
It actually went to 52 today and that was out by the water - far better than the not even 40 yesterday.
I'm hoping the forecast holds for tomorrow - I don't cotton much to standing around for a parade in the dark in freezing temperatures.
Grand Lake o'er the Cherokees......... you dog. ;-) -- I always wanted to live on water like that.
Merry Christmas to you too from Pittsburgh.
Beer floats??????? does not sound appealing at all, at all.
I'll mail you my scarlet lacy nightie. Gar-unteed baby-making with the chocolate and the vino.
Your size might fit me ... but it's FReepin' cold in here!
Hey, I was giving you time-saving tips. ; ) Honest, there is a company in Germany that makes beer flavored ice cream.
It rules. You need to come and visit.
ROFL .........I'll drop some Hershey kisses in there.
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