Article: White Wine May Harm The Arteries

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, ...

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