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Article: White Wine May Harm The Arteries
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 3, 1995
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The strongest case yet that red wine is better for you than white
wine comes from a new study by Israeli scientists.
Researchers at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa had volunteers
drink either red wine or white wine with meals for two weeks. Then
they measured the amount of oxidation of fat and cholesterol in the
subjects' blood. Such damaging oxidation caused by free-radical
chemicals triggers artery clogging.
Red-wine drinkers showed dramatic benefits - a 20 percent
decrease in the propensity of the blood fats to become oxidized. The
tendency of bad-type LDL cholesterol to become oxidized dropped more
than 40 percent.
But white wine did not block hazardous oxidation. In fact, ...