Wine & Health Facts

What are the Health Benefits of Red Wines?

Over the past 50 years, modern medical researchers have been studying a phenomenon known as the French Paradox1 that was made famous by the CBS 60 Minutes news broadcast in 1991. This paradox observes that the French population has a relatively lower cardiovascular disease rate when compared with other Western populations.  Death rates from heart disease are highest in Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Argentina and are lowest in France, Australia, Switzerland, Japan, Israel.

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