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Article: Health news boosts red wine's U.S. sales
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
- Article date:
- April 4, 2007
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Word that red wine is good for you has been around ever since "60
Minutes" famously aired a report on "The French Paradox" in 1991.
The show examined the question: How could the French eat all that
fatty food and not suffer the kind of heart disease we Americans do?
Regular consumption of red wine was part of the answer, the show
declared, and red wine sales shot up.
Ever since, studies have emerged linking red wine with good
health. In November, a study sponsored by the Harvard Medical School
and the National Institute on Aging found that adding resveratrol, a
compound in nuts, grapes and red wine, to ...