| View Larger Image | The Red Wine Diet | Paperbackby Roger Corder (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Avery | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 336 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 06, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 532,235nd |
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Product Description
Wine drinkers are generally healthier and often live longer. They have less heart disease and diabetes, and are less likely to suffer from dementia in old age. Is this the wine, their diet or their lifestyle? Based on the author's own groundbreaking research, THE WINE DIET is a complete nutritional lifestyle and contains the very latest groundbreaking research from an internationally renowned scientist and his team. * Proved at last: drinking red wine really is good for you. * Identified! The antioxidant that unlocks the real secret of the French Paradox. * As well as wine you can get the same benefits from a variety of delicious foodstuffs, including chocolate. * Lose weight - and keep it off - as a result of straightforward lifestyle adjustments. * Enjoy 40 delicious new recipes and benefit from the author's practical cooking tips and eating plans. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 11 reviews)
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Wine and health by Chuck Carpenter (Tacoma WA USA)  4 Stars
November 02, 2009
The Red Wine Diet is an excellent summary of the health aspects of drinking red wine. It explains Resveratrol (the ingredient in red wine that is beneficial)in layman language. It helps one to understand why the French with their fatty diet can still be healthy.
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Just the tip of the iceberg... by D. Hall (North Carolina)  2 Stars
April 08, 2009
This book is a good one if you drink traditional (French) wines. It has lots of info on red wines from different areas of the world. If you are interested in only drinking traditional French red wines, you will like the book. For me, it was health benefits that got me looking into red wine. As an ER nurse, I see more heart attacks than I would prefer. Thought the "French Paradox" was interesting, but I was skeptical. Turns out, the more research I do, the more credible it appears. I also got another book, "The Longevity Factor", and there I read about muscadine wine. This is popular in the Southeast, but not elswhere as the grapes will not grow anywhere other than the Southeast. Muscadine was used for 8,000 years by native americans. Wines were made in the early 1500's in the New World as explorers found this grapes growing wild all over the coastal areas of the Southeast. Turns out, muscadine grapes have far more health benefits than traditional red wines. I have read anywhere from 10X to 40X the amount of resveratol compared to traditional red wines. Bowman Gray School of Medicine (Wake Forest) did a study this past year on Natures Pearl, a muscadine seed supplement, and results should be out any time now. What I have seen so far looks very promising. A cardiology professor led the study and it is to be printed any time now for the public. Harvard School of Medicine showed the anti-oxidants in muscadine wine increased mice life expectancy 30%, even with high fat diets. Reductions in LDH (bad cholesterol) and increases in HDL (good cholesterol) were significant. An independent lab in Wareham, Mass, Biotech, said that the muscadine seed had more resveratol in it than anything they had ever tested. I have contacted researchers from Miss State, Florida Univ, and other state level organizations and all my info says the same thing. Muscadine wine/grapes are far superior to all other red wines in regards to health benefits. It is perplexing to me. Why is so little said about this on a national level? Why do most the books and articles speak only of red wines like Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, etc..? Two thoughts on the subject. One, muscadine grapes only grow in the Southeast of the US and are just a well kept secret to the rest of the world. Two, the market for French, California, Argentina, Austalian, wines is so great, and is experiencing a surge as people start drinking red wine for health reasons, that it would hurt the sales of these wines if people found out that $7-15/bottle muscadine wine was more healthy. I don't know if the author of this book kept muscadine wines out of the book for this reason, or if he just is not aware of the benefits (and superiority) of muscadine wine. Reason I give this book two stars is that with the amount of research the author did, I can't believe he did not know about muscadine wine. Not one single word in the book mentions it. For a book thats sole purpose is to educate people about the health benefits of red wine, I found this unacceptable. Perhaps I would go so far as to say, pushing an agenda. His preference for rich and dark French wines is overtly obvious in the book. Luckily for me, this is not the only resource I checked into. Perhaps this is a case of "sweet wines" not being given any credibility. Perhaps they just don't cost enough. Not sure. But I do know that there is no way I will be drinking the firm tannin, astringent, and expensive french red wines after the information I have discovered recently. I will be taking a Natures Pearl supplement in the morning, putting a little muscadine jelly on my toast, and having a wonderful glass of sweet southern made muscadine wine with my evening meal. I encourage anyone to research this area further. I suspect you, like me, will be surprised at what you find out. As a sidenote, Smith-Glaxo-Kline (huge pharmaceutical corporation) recently payed 3/4 of a BILLION dollars for a study on resveratol. I suspect the "Fountain of Youth" pill will be coming out in the next 5 years or so. Do some reading, dig a little beneath the surface and get past the hype of French red wines. Google "muscadine health" for starters. Below is a link that will provide some great info if the link doesn't break. Look under the "Muscadine Wine and Health" section. In that same section, there is a pdf file "MD News" that I found very interesting. If the link breaks, you can find this info on the North Carolina Commerce website.
http://www.nccommerce.com/en/TourismServices/NurtureWineAndGrapeIndustry/MuscadineGrapes/
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the red wine diet by mr. twits (los angeles)  5 Stars
February 22, 2009
This book is unique, well written and enlightening! Unfortunately, the wines that are most healthy are pricey, hard to locate locally, and of unknown taste. For me, the best compromise is to purchase wines locally that you like, and drink plenty of Welsh's purple grape juice and Ocean Spray cranberry juice.
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There's NO DIET in The Red Wine Diet. Go to: www.VinoDiet.com for the TRUE Wine Diet! by Barry Kogan  1 Stars
February 06, 2009
I expected there to be an actual wine diet in this book, but there was none! I finally found what I was looking for at www.VinoDiet.com Now HERE'S a Wine Diet!
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Ignore the cover by Ken Kardash (Montreal, Canada) 4 Stars
May 12, 2008
The cover and subtitle of this book suggest that it is a shallow treatment of the health benefits of red wine that encourages daily alcohol consumption. This is misleading and does a disservice to the content. It is in fact a careful examination of what constitutes the health-promoting ingredient of red wine compared to other alcoholic beverages (a class of chemicals called procyanidins, it turns out - not resveretrol). The author then takes pains to explain how these plant products can be obtained from other sources (e.g. chocolate, apples), and to put their role in a balanced diet in perspective. There is even a final section of sample recipes to put into practice the nutritional advice he presents.
The author is a chemist by profession, and he writes like one. However, he makes his points in a clear, balanced way that avoids the self-promotional hype that so often taints popular books on health issues. He is obviously a wine lover himself, and the chapter comparing the procyanidin content of various red wine-producing countries and regions is exhaustive. A simple recommendation of the richest sources would have been more helpful to the non-connoisseur; he does eventually get around to this by focusing on the Madarin region of France. He decided to focus on this region because it contains the highest proportion of long-lived Frenchmen, and it is here that he seems to fall victim to the cardinal scientific sin of confusing an association with causality. The implicit conclusion is that it must be the procyanidin-rich wines of this region that result in the locals' longevity, but it may turn out to be some other, even non-dietary factor (maybe they live so long despite the wine!). However, the laboratory evidence he provides of procyanidins' beneficial effects on blood vessels is compelling and is at least a plausible mechanism for the effects he proposes. At the very least, this well-researched and thoughtfully written work will shed new light on the already widely-known virtues of the Mediterranean diet.
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