Health & Fitness: Red Wine & Your Health

Great news for you red wine drinkers, red wine polyphenols appear to prevent cancer. A recent study published in the International Journal of Molecular Science in May of 2008 reports that resveratrol, a major component of red wine polyphenols, has chemoprotective activities which interfere with the development of cancer. This means that these wonderful molecules actually can interfere with the genesis (beginning) of cancer.  

Another study published in March 2009 in Clinical & Experimental Metastasis showed that the combined effect of dietary grape polyphenols (resveratrol, quercetin, and catechin) was tested on progression of mammary bone metastatic variants and found that these grape polyphenols reduced metastasis especially to the liver and bone. Mother nature is at it again.  If your looking for more research on polyphenols and cancer go to www.pubmed.gov where you can keyword search and find more scientific published articles. You may end up being one step ahead.