The next day. Wow! Just after I had blogged about the benefits of RED WINE for breast cancer, CBS news ran a story about RED WINE, but this time how one lab at the University of Connecticut had falsified data about the benefits of red wine for the heart, specifically resveratrol in red wine.
No change in the data presented yesterday, from multiple studies, with plausible mechanism from numerous unconnected laboratories and in many different peer reviewed journals. RED WINE does have a breast cancer risk reduction benefit and it's probably not the resveratrol, but other polyphenols.
One lab that has reported extensively on heart benefits has been investigated and there are signs of not as robust data for heart benefits of resveratrol in red wine as reported.
We will have to wait for the dust to clear to find out how much if any of the heart data is good.
It is important to remember that the risk attributed to wine drinkers (white vs red) for breast cancer in this country only applies to 2% of women.
The benefits of BEING LEAN, MOVING MORE AND REGULAR EXERCISE are not limited to 2%, but can apply to all! Let's each continue to do these things and encourage our friends and family to do likewise so we can prevent 75,000 new cases of breast cancer this year!
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