Re: Wine vs Alzheimers Disease

Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 06:58:23 -0800 (PST)

From: Jfvirey@aol.com

>The original post on the positive effects of moderate consumption
>on the onset of Alzheimer's disease intrigued me, and I did a
>search on the net for the original source. Here is the article I
>found. I believe it does say that drinking 3 to 4 glasses a day is
>correlated with an 80% reduction in dementia and a 70% reduction
>of Alzheimer's disease, though it says so in a language I could
>never hope to emulate.

We should remember that this is in RED wine, and the most concentrated source yet found for these helpfull substances is good old Welch's grape juice (unsweetened).

Why take chances, drink both!!!

Brian
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