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New research supports health benefits of red wine
Research scientists in North Carolina have announced discovery of how a chemical found in red wine helps to fight cancer.
The study may help explain the controversial "French paradox," the apparent lower rates of heart disease and some cancers among the French, despite a typical national diet high in fat.
Compared to other nationalities in Europe, the French eat more beef, cheese, butter and other artery-clogging foods. But they also drink more wine, and researchers have speculated that certain compounds in grapes and grape products like wine offer some kind of protection from the negative effects of the high-fat diet.
The new research identified the workings of a key cancer-related substance: trans-Resveratrol, often called Res.
In addition to red grapes, Res is found in mulberries, raspberries, peanuts, muscadine grapes, including scuppernongs, and many other fruits and nuts, said the research scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"A couple of years ago, a group at the University of Illinois found that Res has both anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties," said nutritional biologist Minnie Holmes-McNary, Ph.D., an author of the North Carolina study. "The question then became how does it exert its effects, and that’s what we show in our paper."
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