/oss/taxonomy/term/2599/all en /oss/article/health-you-asked/what-all-talk-about-paradox-blanc <p>If you take a look at all the literature put out by the French wine industry, you'll start to wonder whether you should replace wine drinking by intravenous infusions of red wine. They make a case for wine being virtually a drug to prevent heart disease. They offer reams of scientific evidence about neutralizing free radicals and preventing cholesterol from damaging the walls of arteries. Of course, that doesn't prove that wine is responsible for the French Paradox. That paradox is the low rate of heart disease compared to North America in spite of a high fat diet.</p> Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:25:32 +0000 OSS 1753 at /oss