Baby Boomer Family – French Paradox
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This is your host, Denise Boomer and Dr. Bee Boomer, welcoming you to this weeks edition of the Baby Boomer Family on PodcastForBoomers.com.
This week we are talking about French Paradox.
We found an article by Dianne Ronnow titled "The Red Wine Secrets of the French Paradox" to be very interesting. According to the article:
American scientists and other health experts are try to discover the "secret" behind the French Paradox. The problem is that the French consume three times as much saturated fat as Americans and one-third less French people die from heart attacks. The French also have much less obesity than America and other Western countries.
The French eat rich foods high in saturated fats. But they also consume red wine and olive oil. Researchers have found olive oil to be a heart-healthy source of fat.
Some scientists believe the French habit of moderate red wine drinking with a meal is the key to French paradox. Studies show that people who drink red wine regularly have lower rates of cancer, Alzheimers, and heart disease.
Red wine and red grapes contain special flavinoid antioxidants called resveratrol, that can offset some of the effects of gluttony. Resveratrol is shown to help lower glucose levels, help your liver, and promote health benefits to the heart and blood vessels.
Red grapes are one of the richest sources of resveratrol flavonoids, which is why red wine is more heart-healthy than white wine, beer, or other spirits.
Resveratrol, researchers are now finding out that it helps us by preventing the negative effects of high-calorie diets, and it has anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer potential.
Researchers are finding that antioxidants seem to trigger receptors in your upper intestine that tell your brain you're full. Lab animals fed the extracts also decreased their food intake by about 8%. This could explain why Resveratrol- a powerful antioxidant- seems to produce a weight loss effect that many people's experience when they use it.
Resveratrol amounts are very small in most red wines in the United States, because of the way that most grapes are grown and processed.
So it would seem that red wine (French) may be helpful in losing weight, reducing the risk of heart disease, cancer and Alzheimers. But it would be better to drink French red wine because of the higher levels of resveratrol.
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I have heard many good things about resveratrol. I bought the supplement recently and began taking it. Red wine is hard for me to drink, not only do I get too tipsy, I also get congested from the wine. GNC has the supplement. I take 80mg daily. Not sure if that is enough. I also drink Organic red grape juice daily.
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