Red wine vitamin content negligible
After yesterday's post on resveratrol, Gabrio wrote that wine has all the vitamins.
Not according to the Wine Pros, who list the percentage of daily requirements provided by a glass of wine of various types. The numbers are, unfortunately, miniscule.
The group has a vested interest in promoting the virtues of wine:
"We are a group of wine lovers. Each is connected to wine as a grape grower, merchant, or restaurateur."
And, as the New York Times noted in an editorial today, you'd need a whole lot of resveratrol to provide the benefit evident in mice.
Gaudeamus igitur.
Terry,
I'm sure you know I was joking about the vitamin thing, but I just want to make sure everyone else knows it.
Richard
Posted by: Richard | November 03, 2006 at 09:38 AM
Hey Terry, do you have a problem drinking 300 glasses of wine a day? I could like that!
Posted by: David | November 03, 2006 at 10:30 AM
Richard, I didn't really know if you were joking or not. It was a question I'd had for some time -- I had long forgotten the answer to it.
David, I'll try if you do!
Posted by: Terry Hughes | November 03, 2006 at 11:31 AM
I heard that you need 200 bottles of wine to have enough Resveratol to live longer.
For the vitimins I didn't say how much ore in the wine but just that there are all of them :)
At the end somebody will create a pill with Resveratrol and we will all live over 100 years crowding even more the already crowded planet of ours.
Eat Well Drink Better
Ciao
Posted by: Gabrio | November 03, 2006 at 01:04 PM
You bring up a good -- a sobering -- point, Gabrio. As the old reggae song goes, "Everybody want to go to heaven / But nobody want to die."
Speaking for myself, I can't say I relish the thought of living to 100. What I would like is to live energetically until my time is done at, oh, 75 - 80. I'm sure **those** numbers will change, if I manage to live that long.
Posted by: Terry Hughes | November 03, 2006 at 02:23 PM
I'm with you on that. It doesn't matter when you die but how u live up to that point. My Uncle lived close to the hundred and at 92 he was still traveling the world visiting his girlfriends and painting.
Posted by: Gabrio | November 04, 2006 at 06:39 PM
I think it was Mae West who said, "It isn't the men in my life that matters. It's the life in my men."
Heh heh heh heh...
Posted by: Terry Hughes | November 04, 2006 at 10:27 PM