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Wine Facts | Updated July 1, 2004
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If every adult in North America drank two glasses of wine a day...heart disease...would be cut by 40% and $40 billion could be saved annually.
Dr. M.R. Lipp & Dr. D. Whiten, Harper Collins West: New York, 1994.
The French Paradox
The French Paradox could be defined as a high level of risk from high levels of cholesterol, fat and hypertension, yet a much lower death rate, one of the lowest in the world, from heart disease. This is due...to wine drinking in France. Serge Renaud, MD, Director of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research.
Lower death rates from heart disease occur in countries like France where wine is a traditional part of everyday life. Renaud & De Longeril, Lancet, 1992:339:1523
Cross cultural studies have reported significantly lower risk of heart disease in France and other Mediterranean wine drinking regions. The graph below shows that although France consumes as much fat calories as other countries, the incidence of coronary disease if dramatically lower. With our enlightened knowledge of dietary requirements for a healthy and happy life, we are able to conclude that wine will help us achieve our goals and become an enjoyable addition providing complementary flavors to almost everything we eat.
Please click here to view Heart Disease, Mortality and Daily Fat Consumption Chart by Country
The Harvard Pyramid
Wine and a Healthy Diet for the Twenty First Century
The Mediterranean Diet Pyramid includes wine as part of a healthy diet
In 1993, The World Health Organization and The Collaborating Center for Nutrition at Harvard Medical School of Public Health, helped develop a Mediterranean dietary pyramid which includes wine in moderation as part of a recommended healthy diet.
Please click here to view The Mediterranean Diet Pyramid
Shown above, wine in moderation? means the consumption of between one and two glasses a day! (one glass is a 5 oz. serving of wine containing 12% alcohol by volume).
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