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Need another reason to drink red wine? Well, here it is …
(If you’re looking for this weekend’s tasting list, click here.)
Need another reason to drink red wine in moderation? You’ve got it. A brand new study suggests red wine — cabernet sauvignon was used in this particular instance — may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
Yes, the study involved mice, and only mice, but the research team at New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine say their findings, to be published in a medical journal in November, represent a potential breakthrough and deserve further study. Their words, from a Mount Sinai news release:
“This new breakthrough is another step forward in Alzheimer’s research at Mount Sinai and across the globe for this growing health concern that has devastating effects,” say Giulio Maria Pasinetti, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Director of the Neuroinflammation Research Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and lead author of the study and Dr. Jun Wang, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and co-Author of the study. “These findings give researchers and millions of families a glimpse of light at the end of the long dark tunnel for future prevention of this disease.”
Here are three different takes on the story, first from WebMD, the second a news release from the Mt. Sinai school of medicine via sciencedaily.com , and the third from Decanter.com.
Perhaps that glass of cab — or some other similarly robust red wine — with dinner will taste just a bit sweeter tonight ….
Cheers!
Mark Fisher
Comments
By TJ
September 26, 2006 12:45 PM | Link to this
Having lost both of my grandmother’s to Alzheimer’s…this is great news! Anything to avoid that HORRIBLE disease and to drink more Cabs won’t be hard being from California ;)