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A votre sante! - scoop - researcher finds health-enhancing chemical resveratrol in red wine - Brief Article
Vegetarian Times, Dec, 2003
Biologists are coming closer to understanding the mysterious health benefits of red wine--and thereby explaining the so-called French Paradox. David A. Sinclair of Harvard Medical School, who published his findings in the August 2003 Nature, discovered a chemical called resveratrol, which is one of a class of chemicals that appears to mimic the effects of a low-calorie diet.
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If people respond to the chemicals the way biologists suspect that they may, the life span of humans could be extended by 30 percent. The effect of resveratrol in their drinking habits could explain why the French can consume fatty foods without shortening their life spans.
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