Saturday, September 8, 2012

Cardiac Benefits of Red Wine Not From the Alcohol

Good luck finding dealcoholized red wine, unless you can substitute grape juice. 
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Hypertension/34610

Action Points


  • Explain that a small Spanish open-label, crossover study found that consumption of a moderate amount of dealcoholized red wine over a 4-week period, but not red wine itself or gin, was associated with a modest decrease in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
  • Note that plasma nitric oxide was also increased when dealcoholized red wine was consumed, leading the authors to speculate that the blood pressure lowering effect might be due to nitric oxide.
 Rest at the link, I suppose that they will next test the dark beers and say that the alcohol in them is not needed either. Taking all the fun out of life.

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