According to the latest research, an ingredient called RESVERATROL which can be found in red wine has remarkable health benefits including cancer prevention and protection of the heart and brain from damage.Low to moderate drinking - especially of red wine - appears to reduce causes of mortality, while too much drinking causes multiple organ damage.According to professor Lindsay Brown from the University of Queensland: "Reports on the benefits of red wine are almost two centuries old.Studies on the actions of resveratrol, one of the active non-alcoholic ingredients, were uncommon until research around 1997 showed prevention of cancers. This led to a dramatic interest in this compound.
Red wine contains a complex mixture of bioactive compounds, including flavonols, monomeric and polymeric flavan-3-ols, highly colored anthocyanins, as well as phenolic acids and the stilbene polyphenol, resveratrol. Brown said that some of these compounds, particularly resveratrol, appear to have health benefits.The resveratrol reduces age-related diseases such as inflammation, reverses diabetes and obesity and has many more remarkable benefits. Findings on resveratrol will be published in the September issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
We need to understand better the vast array of compounds that exist in nature, and determine their potential benefits to health.
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