SwStudio wrote:
>
> "Tom Phillips" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > SwStudio wrote:
> > I hate to let you down, but it ain't the alcohol. There
> > is simply no end to silly justifications for drinking.
> > Why people won't admit they drink to get high is beyond
> > me.
>
> It's obvious you take this personally and have some sort of
> axe to grind, Tom.
Ah, David, you're the one who threw down the gauntlet
and challenged (in absence of any facts whatsoever) a
"glass of wine a day) has been shown in studies..."
This is a typically deliberate mangling of what those
scientific studies _actually_ report, which I do cite
below for your reading pleasure...
> > Youir ignorance is simply astounding.
>
> Tell me how you really feel, Tom. Get it all out.
Have you ever actually _read_ even one of the studies
you cited in absentia? Likely as with most others you
simply repeat the media's misinformation. Perhaps
"uninformed" would have been a less offensive adjective
in your case. But it still adds up to ignorance on the
subject.
> > Alcohol is a drug and is known/proven to have
> > deliterious effects on human physiology. Only someone
> > in denial and looking for justification for the alcohol
> > induced "high" claims it's the alcohol that is
> > "healthy."
>
> That's me! I have to admit to going to bars nightly and staggering
> home because I think it's damn good for me. Hopefully my denial
> will come to an end soon. We all have our vices. Yours appears
> to be taking people's statements wildly out of context
And your's appears to be citing studies out of context,
while ignoring the scientific fact that alcohol itself
is not beneficial to human physiology. By itself it has
almost zero health benefit except in medical use. It's
a poisonous chemical.
>in order to
> display an unusually high degree of anger towards people's reasons
> for drinking.
I could care less if _you_ drink -- long as you don't
drink and then drive or beat your wife
. What people
put in their bodies is their business. What I do
get ruffled at is people who blindly repeat lies about
a product that kills 100,000 folks a year but don't
tell them the health benefits aren't exclusive to
fermentation. P.T. Barnum's (there's a sucker born
every minute) has nothing on the Wine Industry.
Here's the factual scientific context as actually
reported by one such study:
Excerpt from "Red Wine Increases the Expression of Human
Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase, A Mechanism That May
Contribute to its Beneficial Cardiovascular Effects. Thomas
Wallerath, PHD, Daniela Poleo, Huige Li, MD, PHD, Ulrich
Forstermann, MD, PHD Mainz, Germany. Journal of the American
College of Cardiology Vol. 41, No. 3, 2003
www.acc.org/media/releases/highlights/2003/feb03/wine.pdf
© 2003 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation ISSN
(***EMPHASIS IS ADDED)
"INGREDIENTS OF GRAPES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR eNOS UPREGULATION."
"Moderate alcohol intake, ***ALSO FROM BEVERAGES OTHER THAN
[FERMENTED] WINE***, has been shown to lower the risk of
cardiovascular disease (4–6). However, the ethanol content of red
wine is unlikely to be responsible for the upregulation of eNOS
expression observed here, because the equivalent amount of
ethanol (1.25%, v/v) alone produced only a marginal upregulation
of eNOS (Fig. 1), and all subsequent experiments (Figs. 2–6) were
performed with appropriate ethanol controls. In addition, German
red wines (which were largely ineffective) and French red wines
have the same alcohol content. Also, no difference was detected
between "en barrique" and "non-barrique"-produced red wines made
from the same grapes, ***SUGGESTING THAT THE COMPOUNDS
STIMULATING eNOS expression DERIVE FROM THE GRAPES RATHER THAN
FROM THE BARREL STAVES.*** The numerous phenolic acids,
polyphenols, and flavonoids contained in red wine are likely
candidates, probably mediating the expressional upregulation of
eNOS."
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MORE FROM:
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ mi_m0826/is_2_19/ai_99987034
Wine benefits without the wine - Lifelines - Brief Article
Vibrant Life, March-April, 2003
While wine's supposed health benefits continue to be a focus of
many media reports, there are many ways to get the
health-protective properties of wine into your diet without any
alcohol.
Remember, there's nothing in wine that isn't in grapes, except
for the alcohol. So add a variety of red and purple table grapes
to your diet. Also, most berries, plums, currants, and other
deep-red or deep-blue fruits are excellent sources of anthocyanin
phenols found in wine. And quercetin, another phytonutrient in
wine, is actually more abundant in apples with skin. Onions,
whole buckwheat, oranges, and grapefruits provide some too. A
healthy dose of colorful fruits and vegetables provides many
other health-protective nutrients not found in wine.
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MORE FROM:
http://www.red-wine-and-health.com/
Healing Powers of Antioxidants: The compounds found in red wine
that are responsible for its healing powers are antioxidants. Red
wines contain several antioxidants beneficial to good health.
Different antioxidants have different functions, but the key
feature of all these antioxidants appears to be one of protection
and prevention of disease.
Red Wine Research Focuses On Chemicals In The Grape
Resveratrol and Other Red Wine Antioxidants
One of the most studied antioxidants in red wine is resveratrol,
a compound found in the seeds and skins of grapes. Red wine has a
high concentration of resveratrol because the skins and seeds
ferment in the grapes' juices during the red wine-making process.
This prolonged contact during fermentation produces significant
levels of resveratrol in the finished red wine. White wine also
contains resveratrol, but the seeds and skins are removed early
in the white wine-making process, reducing the concentration of
the compound in the finished white wine.
Antioxidants, like resveratrol, are beneficial in preventing
harmful elements in the body from attacking healthy cells. Found
in red wine, peanuts, blueberries and cranberries, resveratrol is
easily absorbed by the human body. The antioxidant properties of
resveratrol also offer certain health benefits in the prevention
of heart disease and the reduction of lung tissue inflammation in
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
