Craig Pepin-Donat
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 It reminds me a lot of wine tasting. Each wine has unique qualities and as you educate your palette, you can recognize the hidden aromas and flavors with each sip.
I set up my coffee maker every night so the fresh, hot coffee is waiting for me when I wake up. I love the flavor of coffee with freshly steamed, organic milk, so I went out of my way to purchase a coffee maker that has a built-in steamer. I steam the milk until it is hot and frothy and I pour the coffee and steamed milk into a huge mug. |
Michael Pollan
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 By the standards of most official dietary guidelines, the French eat poorly: way too much saturated fat and wine. The Greeks too have their own paradox; defying the recommendation that we get no more than 30 percent of our calories from fats, they get 40 percent, most of it in the form of olive oil. So researchers begin looking for synergies between nutrients: Might the antioxidants in the red wine help metabolize the fats? Perhaps. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Then I dropped the bomb: there are other substances in wine that should give us pause.
California wines, especially, are problematic since grapes from that state contain rather high levels of fluoride. Apparently, vineyards there use fluoride as a pesticide—in addition to watering with fluoridated water. As one of the most reactive chemicals in the periodic chart, fluoride binds tightly to the plant proteins and cannot be removed. Most grape products in fact, especially juices, contain high levels of fluoride and should be avoided.
Another problem with wines is that they all contain sulfites. |
| I remember one lecture on disease prevention in which, when I mentioned the health effects of wine, someone in the audience let out a whoop of joy and applauded loudly. Now, he thought, he could get healthy and imbibe a little fruit of the vine at the same time. Then I dropped the bomb: there are other substances in wine that should give us pause.
California wines, especially, are problematic since grapes from that state contain rather high levels of fluoride. Apparently, vineyards there use fluoride as a pesticide—in addition to watering with fluoridated water. |
David Steinman
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 Wine bottles sold in California no longer use lead-foil wrappers, protecting consumers from wine with unacceptably high levels of lead. Meanwhile, major manufacturers have asserted that Proposition 65, with its labeling demands, "provided an opportunity to improve product performance." The resulting products—from white-out to paint stripper—worked effectively and cost no more. They were better products, though.
I started buying brands of personal-care and cosmetic products at Rite-Aid and other stores and sending them to the analytical laboratory. Each test cost $275. |
Michael Pollan
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| What nutritionism sees when it looks at the French paradox is a lot of slender French people eating gobs of saturated fat washed down with wine. What it fails to see is a people with a completely different relationship to food than we have. Nutritionists pay far more attention to the chemistry of food than to the sociology or ecology of eating. All their studies of the benefits of red wine or foie gras overlook the fact that the French eat very differently than we do.They seldom snack, and they eat most of their food at meals shared with other people. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 My advice is the same for other specialty food items. Buy wine from the wineries, buy cacao from a farmer-owned cooperative, and seek out ways to get your food, clothing, personal care products and other items from a source that actually supports local farmers rather than driving them into bankruptcy.
Many macadamia nut farms in Hawaii that used to exist five years ago just gave up and either sold their farms to the large nut processing companies like Hershey's or turned them into coffee farms in order break even. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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| While this seems to explain the phenomenon, little was known about how well wine flavonoids worked in humans. Using human volunteers, he found that supplying 400 mg of red wine a day for two weeks to these happy guinea pigs, significantly reduced the ability of LDL to be oxidized in the presence of copper, a standard measure of LDL oxidizability.369 Other studies did not reproduce this effect.370 In fact, this same study found that white wine actually increased the risk of oxidizing LDL. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 This discussion takes us into the whole question of the use of wine and black and Chinese green teas, which are very high in bioflavonoids. The Chinese green teas also contain the class of bioflavonoids called cate-chins. These catechins are particularly strong antioxidants. wine has a whole lot of flavonoids. Red wine also has a number of phenolics, the most important being resveratrol and quercetin, which alter gene expression and enhance phenotypic expression to protect against blood clot formation as in heart disease. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Typical table wine runs from 0 to 3 on the sugar scale. Ice wine runs from 18 to 28.
The shrunken nature of the grapes is due to water loss. Chemically speaking, it's not difficult to guess why grapes might have evolved to offload water at the onset of a freeze—the less water in the grape, the fewer ice crystals there are to damage the delicate membranes of the fruit.
How about the sharp increase in sugar concentration? That makes sense too. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 White wine contains much less of this antioxidant, and therefore it has fewer health benefits. Resveratrol, unfortunately is not in green tea. However, green tea may offer even greater potential for health protection, since it not only includes the flavonoids active in red wine but also includes even more powerfully protective flavonoids that are unique to it.
When Michael G. Hertog, Ph.D. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| Typical table wine runs from 0 to 3 on the sugar scale. Ice wine runs from 18 to 28.
The shrunken nature of the grapes is due to water loss. Chemically speaking, it's not difficult to guess why grapes might have evolved to offload water at the onset of a freeze—the less water in the grape, the fewer ice crystals there are to damage the delicate membranes of the fruit.
How about the sharp increase in sugar concentration? That makes sense too. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Sprinkle with half of the wine or cider. (Save the rest for use later.)
5. Place pork atop apple-carrot-onion mixture.
6. Transfer baking dish to oven and roast until apple-onion mixture is soft and brown and meat thermometer inserted into the center of the pork registers 150°F, about 20 minutes.
7. Remove baking dish from oven and add remaining wine or hard cider. Cook for an additional 3 minutes.
8. Remove baking dish and transfer pork to platter. Cover with foil. Let stand 5 minutes.
9. Cut pork on diagonal into V^-inch-thick slices. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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| These catechins are particularly strong antioxidants. wine has a whole lot of flavonoids. Red wine also has a number of phenolics, the most important being resveratrol and quercetin, which alter gene expression and enhance phenotypic expression to protect against blood clot formation as in heart disease. Resveratrol also has certain anti-aging qualities that are recently being touted to mimic the calorie restriction effect. However, red wine also has the downside of being alcohol. |
Andreas Moritz
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Mark Blumenthal
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 Immunology
DB, PC n=36 healthy volunteers
1 month (followed by a 6-month observation period)
10 ml fluid-extract diluted in wine and sorbitol water 3x/day vs. dry wine with same ethanol content
Eleukokk® fluidextract (0.2%
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Eleuthero improved non-specific immune reactivities as determined by quantitative flow-cytometry. Significant increase in the absolute numbers of immunocompetent cells, particularly T-cells, predominantly of the helper/inducer type, but also on cytotoxic and natural killer cells. |
Bryan Hanson, PhD
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 Perhaps you have heard that red wine and dark chocolate can help prevent cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks and strokes, and have wondered how such a wonderful thing is possible—though most people don't need excuses to enjoy wine and chocolate!
If so, then you are asking the very questions scientists ask, and how to think about these questions and understand the answers is the subject of this book. Let's look at a common example to illustrate what I mean. Almost certainly you have heard of the plant St. John's wort, which is recommended for the treatment of mild depression. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 For example, if I had a dessert and some wine with my dinner, I'd get a rapid heart rate for hours and then horrible insomnia. Knowing my family history of diabetes, I came to realize that I'm sensitive to sugar and that if I'm not careful, I'm a likely candidate for diabetes. That's why I work hard to keep my weight down and watch my sugar intake like a hawk.
Although most of the time I stay away from sweets, I'm not perfect. I do allow myself tastes of sweets from time to time. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Asian ginseng, on the other hand, is often steamed with herbs and wine, which gives it a reddish color and a more warming quality. Thus American ginseng is more often used during the warmer times of the year, while Asian ginseng is best used during cooler seasons.
Ginseng's effects are cumulative, and most benefit occurs after a period of use, although some users will notice immediate effects. Many athletes use it for a week prior to a competition.
Although the root is the primary medicinal component of the plant, the leaves of both varieties can be used to treat hangover and fever. |
| It has been used to flavor pastries and wine.
Other Uses
The flowers deter bugs and moths and are sometimes added to sachets kept with clothing. They also can be rubbed fresh onto the skin as an insect repellent. The essential oil is used in perfumery. In magical traditions, feverfew is burned as incense for spiritual cleansing. |
| It can also be added to wine. The dried root is sometimes made into a flour.
Other Uses
The root can be given to babies to teethe on (under supervision, of course); it is sweet and hard and doesn't splinter.
Constituents
Calcium, iron, manganese, zinc, carbohydrates, protein, saponins (tangshenoside), alkaloids (codonop-sine, codonopsinine), polysaccharides (inulin, sucrose, glucose), essential oil
Energetic Correspondences
• Flavor: sweet
• Temperature: warm
• Moisture: moist
• Polarity: yang
• Planet: Jupiter
• Element: water
Contraindications
Generally regarded as safe. |
| The roots and also the flowers may be candied, and the roots are sometimes added to wine both for their flavor and their therapeutic properties. Roasting the roots caramelizes their carbohydrates; such roasted roots can be used as a coffee substitute or extender, as in "Louisiana-style coffee."
The rest of the plant is edible as well. The young leaves (gathered before flowering) can be added to salads or cooked as greens. The buds and flowers can be pickled. Chicory flowers are a beautiful edible garnish in salads and other dishes. |
| The sap of the tree can be made into wine, syrup, or vinegar.
Birch bark has been used as paper; in ancient times it was used to make clothing, shoes, and containers. The fresh leaf wards off bugs and was once used as a strewing herb, and smaller birch branches were used for broom handles. A tar made from birch is used to waterproof leather. The sap is distilled and used to treat mange in animals. As birch wood is full of air pockets and thus very buoyant, it was used to make canoes by some Native American peoples. It is used today to make plywood and furniture. |
Charles Barber
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 Sipping white wine, my friends and the friends of my parents struggled to grasp terms like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. If I happened to mention the medications my clients were taking, the names fell upon barely comprehending ears. (Or I would be asked, in so many words: "Those are those zombie meds that they gave out in the old mental hospitals, aren't they?") It was also evident that these professors and lawyers and businesspeople, while not lacking in compassion, suspected my clients of having taken way too many drugs and/or being possessed of a seedy moral shiftlessness. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Even one little glass of wine or a shot of sake, which, like all alcohol, turns to sugar in your bloodstream, wallops me with a horrific hangover, excessive exhaustion, and a blast of irritability.
There's simply no escaping the terrifying change that occurs against my will. After eating or drinking a lot—or a polite portion—of sweets or refined carbs, I turn into my own worst nightmare, uncontrollable and unstoppable. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 One study supports this theory by demonstrating that dietary intake of fish, eggs, and fruit was associated with less dysmenorrhea while wine intake was associated with more dysmenorrhea.9 In addition, another study advocates a vegetarian diet as a way to increase sex-hormone-binding globulin and decrease body weight and the severity and duration of menstrual cramps.10
The most important foods to avoid are those that are high in arachidonic acid. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| I'm merely saying that you may wish to partake of polite portions of pizza, pasta, candies, pastry, soda, wine, or other "taboo" foods on that designated day.
Next, watch yourself as if you were conducting a lab experiment. Try to learn from it. Write down how you feel later that day, the next day, and two days after eating those "treats." How did your sugar diet affect you? What does your body tell you?
Actually, some forward-thinking schools do just that—they allow their kids a junk-food day. Sure enough, they've found this to be a powerful way to prove the value of staying sugar free. |
| American and British scientists like to call this phenomenon the "French Paradox," and some have attributed it to their regular consumption of moderate amounts of red wine with their meals.
University of Pennsylvania psychologist Paul Rozin, Ph.D., and his colleagues, however, took a closer look and found that the American ingrained sense of "bigger is better" may be largely responsible for our more portly proportions. When scientists compared packaged products in Paris and Philadelphia, they found that nearly all items, especially those containing sugar, were larger in the United States. |
| There's a lot of sugar in two glasses of wine. This condition is not strictly limited to alcoholics."
Hypoglycemia: A Potential Prelude to Diabetes
Although it's not universally acknowledged, clinical evidence suggests that people with long-term hypoglycemia are headed toward diabetes. In fact, endocrinologist Dr. Schwarzbein, who has treated many diabetics, found that most of her patients were hypoglycemic for years before coming down with the more serious disease.
This shouldn't be too surprising, since both hypoglycemia and diabetes are related to blood sugar problems. |
| Days of wine and Roses, 1962, starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, and Jack Klugman
In this scene, recovered alcoholic Jim Hungerford (Jack Klugman) talks to Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon) about his alcoholic wife, Kirsten Arneson (Lee Remick).
"Joe, do you remember how you told us about Kirsten's obsession with chocolate candy when you first met? A perceptive psychologist could have told you right then that she was a potential alcoholic."
So what do sugar, drugs, and alcohol have in common? |
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