Red wine contains potential anti-cancer agent; Illinois researchers find that substance in grapes reduces tumor growth in lab mice by up to 98 percent
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Researchers at the Univ of Illinois at Chicago found that the chemical resveratrol, which is found in red wine, reduced skin tumors in mice by as much as 98%. Research on human subjects is about two years away. Heart disease, skin cancer and colon cancer could be prevented by resveratrol.
Publisher: Marvin R. Shanken Communications, Inc.
Publication Name: The Wine Spectator
Subject: Food and beverage industries
ISSN: 0193-497X
Year: 1997
Cancer research, Cancer
Publication Name: The Wine Spectator
Subject: Food and beverage industries
ISSN: 0193-497X
Year: 1997
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Prescription for healthy hear? It might pair red wine and chocolate
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Univ of California Davis chemist and enologist Andrew Waterhouse has found phenolics in red wine and cocoa powder. Phenolics may help prevent the oxidization of LDL cholesterol, which leads to clogging of the arteries and heart disease.
Publisher: Marvin R. Shanken Communications, Inc.
Publication Name: The Wine Spectator
Subject: Food and beverage industries
ISSN: 0193-497X
Year: 1996
Prevention, Heart diseases, Phenols, Phenols (Class of compounds), Chocolate, Enologists, Cocoa
Publication Name: The Wine Spectator
Subject: Food and beverage industries
ISSN: 0193-497X
Year: 1996
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Subjects list: Health aspects, Research, Wine
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