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Red Wine: The Key to Unlocking a Longer Life

Who would have thought that your glass of red wine with dinner could be keeping you healthy?  A study done by the Harvard Medical School and the National Institute of Aging showed that “heavy doses of red wine extract lowered the rate of diabetes, liver problems and other fat-related ill [...]

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Reversing Alzheimer’s Disease: Resveratrol Shows Promise

Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a progressive and fatal brain disorder, is presently the seventh-leading cause of death in the United States. As the population of older people worldwide continues to increase, Alzheimer’s has become an urgent healthcare problem, and the focus of a great deal of scientific research. Among recent discoveries that may have [...]

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For Heart Disease, Resveratrol May Provide Antioxidant Protection

For almost two decades, the benefits of resveratrol and similar phytochemicals have been the focus of much attention from the scientific community. While dark-colored fruits like blueberries, strawberries, and pomegranates contain resveratrol, red- and purple-skinned grapes are especially rich in the chemical. In fact, the main biologically active and well-characterized constituent from (sic.) the grape [...]

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