Doctor creates 'world's healthiest wine'
Trust it to be an Aussie................
It sounds too good to be true. An Australian doctor claims to have created the world’s healthiest wine.
The drink purports to clean blood vessels and reduce the risk of heart attack with each glass.
Developed by Sydney doctor and wine historian Dr Philip Norrie, each bottle contains up to 100 times the amount of resveratrol - a naturally occurring anti-oxidant found in grapes - than a standard drop.
Resveratrol helps to maintain blood flow by keeping arteries free of fatty deposits called atherosclerotic plaque.
Dr Norrie said a wine infused with high levels of the odourless, tasteless anti-oxidant would act as a “vascular pipe-cleaner”.
“While the positive effects of moderate wine consumption have long been documented, the inclusion of such large quantities of this beneficial anti-oxidant is very good news for wine drinkers,” he told Australian Associated Press.
“What we’ve been able to do is boost the amount of resveratrol in wine and you wont even know its there ... you’re effectively clearing your arteries while you drink.
“Getting people to stop smoking, exercise and lose weight, is a nice idea but in reality it doesn’t happen. Drinking two glasses of wine is realistic, enjoyable and also good for you and I’ve made it even healthier,” he said.
Dr Norrie is now producing his own range of wine, including a chardonnay and a shiraz, each containing 100mg/L of resveratrol per bottle.
He said this was as much as is contained in 70 to 100 bottles of standard white wine or 15 to 20 bottles of standard red.
“I stress that these benefits are best realised with moderate drinking,” Dr Norrie said in a warning to any connoisseurs planning a wine-based health kick.
University of Queensland cardiologist Associate Professor David Colquhoun also stressed the need for “moderate” consumption as he said the benefits of resveratrol were well known.
“Studies have strongly suggested that consumption of wine rich in resveratrol can lessen cardio-vascular disease, heart attack and stroke, he said.
mmm not sure its the yeast so much but the alcohol content!
I hope they don't taste like medicine..
Wines made without yeast are good for health...have medicinal value...and are approved in Ayurveda.
but I've yet to taste one!
ewwwwwww gimme the wine any time lol
wasn't the reason for inventing adult diapers to also help with this problem......;P
"Your born, You Live, You Die, given this premise, one can conclude since we have no control over when we are born and when we die, the only thing that matters to us should be how we live, simple really?" Mis-Cat to her philosophy Lecturer.
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jauntie....the sun is back in fashion again! People are not getting enough vitamin D so they are saying to go outdoors again.
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"Some call it Genesis, we call it Genius"... Oh, sorry, wrong advert..
Anyway, there is non-alcoholic wine available.. I suppose theoretically I couldjust drink grape juice with high concentration of resveratrol .
LOL Jauntie PINO MORE!!
Until we get our hands on this wine with 100 times the amount of resveratrol that is in the wine we have now, it is quanity that helps :)
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Sun was recommended as excellent for the health!
With each generation comes a different kill or cure ;o)
That article says: The drink purports to clean blood vessels and reduce the risk of heart attack with each glass.
I think it all depends on the quantity NOT the quality lol
There is a huge debate in local media over a local independent secondary school biology text book because of recommending moderate wine consuming for optimal health. Each independent school in Doha has its own textbooks even though they must comply with the supreme education council curriculum standard.
jauntie...trust you to make light of a very serious subject :P
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Moderate wine consumption has been known to be good for the health for centuries but has only been scientifically proven in more recent times . My 86 year old mother who is still on absolutely no medications was ACTUALLY told by her doctor when she gave up working (at age 70 by the way )that a couple of glasses of wine at night is actually good for her , needless to say she still thinks he is one of the best doctors ever.
Winn u know me, I respect people's values and religion as they do mine, I am not one of those typically close minded desis or Imams who'd go around preaching people to stop drinking. It's their opinion, its their freedom and I got no problem with that :).
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Good news.. I can't keep it bottled up either..
I kid you not...
New Wine!
(For Senior Citizens)
California vintners in the Napa Valley area, which primarily produce Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir and Pinot Grigio wines, have developed a new hybrid grape that acts as an anti-diuretic.
It is expected to reduce the number of trips older people have to make to the bathroom during the night.
The new wine will be marketed as:
PINO MORE
I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
I just could not help it.
That's funny.
I understand your point, but if its as dirty as urine, why do you allow ur syringes to be disinfected with spirit or get an alcohol swab on a wound?
LOL...I have heard things about some beers tastin like piss, but I woudnt know!!
Winn, yup may be, but islam is also consideres alcohol as dirty as urine. So I dont think it has any health benefits. I'm not arguing the point of drinking wine, I'm just giving my opinion.
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Do you know that there are quite a few medicines that have alcohol as a base? Taken in right doses at the right time, even a poisonous thing is medicine. (Refer Samuel Hahnemann )
Thexonic: There are other (widely accepted)criteria to judge the 'healthiness' of something than just by checking whether it was allowed in Islam.
Maybe, the reason for alcohol being banned was coz of the drinking habits of people and what they did after they got drunk?
If alcohol in general was even close to being healthy, it would've been allowed in islam. May be this is some kind of non-alcoholic wine.
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Marketing gimmick!
After all the changes, I hope it tastes like a wine atleast! :P
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Way to go Ray!
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