by Padre Art

Created on: January 27, 2009

Since 1970 over 400 health studies worldwide have described and verified the amazing health benefits of red wine.

There are individual health advantages such as a 50% reduced risk of heart disease, a 50% reduced risk of blood clot related stroke, a 58% reduced risk of type two diabetes, a 56% reduced risk of lung cancer, 42%-70% reduced risk of dementia, 59% reduced risk of kidney stones, a 32% reduced chance of developing cataracts and more, all related to people that consume moderate amounts of wine on a daily basis, but the researchers doing the studies found a general tonic effect on the entire spectrum of human health concerns.

In 1996 doctors with the Harvard School for Public Health concluded that drinking wine was one of the best ways to reduce the risk of heart attacks, achieve lower general mortality rates and improve the basic health condition. These same health benefits are seen in all age groups from young adult (early 20's) to seniors over 70 years of age. It is said that a rising tide lifts all ships and red wine consumption is the rising tide that improves health advantages for the entire human system.

The value to the system of regular, moderate wine consumption was shown in the Framingham Heart Study of 1970 but did not become public knowledge, thanks to the puritanical zeal of the National Institute of Health, who suppressed the information for a decade until the 1980 Honolulu Heart study again proved that wine drinking on a regular basis reduced the risk of coronary heart disease by 50% compared to teetotalers. This important public health information was still kept within the inner circles of the medical professions frustrated prohibitionists and out of the hands of the public until November of 1991 when the program "60 Minutes" did a show on the French Paradox.

The diet of the people of France being made up of fatty, cholesterol laden foods similar to that of the population of the United States, it made sense that the heart disease rates would be similar in both countries. Curiously the rate of heart disease in America was six times higher than that of France and the reason was their passion for wine.

After that the lid was off and dozens of studies were followed by hundreds more, all verifying and expanding on the overall health advantages to be gained by consuming two or three glasses of wine (6 ounces each) with meals low in meat and animal fat and high in fresh fruit and vegetables, lots of pasta and wine (the Mediterranean diet).

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