Coffee and wine
- Tuesday, June 17 2008 @ 08:07 PM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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Two of my favorite drinks, of course.
Coffee drinkers have slightly lower death rates:
Coffee drinkers have slightly lower death rates:
While accounting for other risk factors, such as body size, smoking, diet, and specific diseases, the researchers found that people who drank more coffee were less likely to die during the follow-up period. This was mainly because of lower risk for heart disease deaths among coffee drinkers.And, red wine is good for you . . . again!
The new finding is consistent with the theory that the resveratrol in red wine explains the French paradox, the observation that French people eat a relatively high-fat diet but have a low death rate from heart disease.
"Resveratrol has anti-obesity properties by exerting its effects directly on the fat cells," Fischer-Posovszky said. "Thus, resveratrol might help to prevent development of obesity or might be suited to treating obesity."