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...unknown, we are having the adventure of a lifetime. The good life that novelist Peter Mayle and Scott have portrayed so well can be experienced by anyone who wants it badly enough. In ways big and small, the French joyfully share their country's beauty, culture, food and wine with anyone who comes here with an open mind and heart...
...someone who likes good food and wine, I was delighted to read about how a substance called resveratrol in red wine proved to have a terrific health benefit in tests with mice [Nov. 13]. Then I read, "You would need to drink more than 100 glasses of red wine a day to get as much resveratrol as those mice got," and I thought, Wow, the good news just keeps on coming...
...photos and what to serve if lumberjacks or a rich uncle come to call, she offers sage advice on party planning and dealing with mishaps--managing drunken guests, for example, or removing postparty stains. The recipes are solid, including fabulous cheese balls and her mom's steak with red-wine butter...
...fact that the diet favored by the Greeks is good for the heart seems as ancient as Greece itself. But now the Mediterranean diet--high in fruit, vegetables, cereals, fish, olive oil and topped with a glass or two of wine daily--has been linked to a lower risk for Alzheimer's, even in patients with vascular disease. When researchers from Columbia University Medical Center scored the diets of nearly 2,000 subjects on a 0-to-9 scale--depending on their adherence to a Mediterranean-style food plan--each additional point on the scale corresponded...
Studies have suggested that drinking modest amounts of red wine can help the heart. The key appears to be an antioxidant called resveratrol found in grape skins (and, in fact, grape juice seems to be just as effective if not as much fun). Now researchers at Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Aging say that high doses of resveratrol fed to obese mice seemed to prevent problems usually seen in chubby rodents (and people), including diabetes, liver damage and premature death. But you would need more than 100 glasses of wine a day to get that much resveratrol...