has an impressive anti-inflammatory action which, in animals, has delayed the process of ageing and increased lifespan by up to 50%." Just before you rush out to stock up with your favourite 'Chateau Colostomy', I would like to point out that tests on mice, fed a reduced carbohydrate diet, also showed an increase in life span of 50%! The report doesn't say if red wine was part of their diet!!

At the end of the day, to my way of thinking, as with everything in Life moderation is the name of the game. Enjoy a glass or two with your evening meal while your chat with your family and catch up on everybody's daily events. Eat as much organic fruit & vegetables as you can, take organic food supplements, exercise in moderation and learn to be at peace with, and love, yourself. If you don't love yourself, how can you love

RESVERATROL is the latest 'cool' discovery in a growing list of natural antioxidant chemicals produced by our indispensable neighbours on this planet, plants. Let's hear it for the plants! When will we learn that one cannot beat Nature's systems, evolved over billions of years, when it comes to fighting disease. Everything wants to be at the top of the evolutionary pile, to guarantee survival of the species and survival requires combat, in one way or another.

When humans are well nourished, both physically and spiritually (and I don't necessarily mean religion), we can survive most attacks from invading micro-organisms, but when we are run down we seem to succumb easily.

And so too with plants. Resveratrol in the grape (Vitis vinifera) is found in the roots, seeds & stalks but much higher concentrations are found in the skin of the grape, which protects it against fungal and micro-organism attacks. Resveratrol is found in much higher quantities in red wine than in white, due to there being not much if it in the white skins, which are discarded before vinification; I wonder whether Bacchus preferred red or white wine?! Maybe he didn't care!

Other food sources of resveratrol include peanuts and mulberries and it is found in quite large amounts in the dried roots & stems of the Japanese Knotweed (Poligonium cuspidatum), obtainable mainly through health stores. The Japanese Knotweed is commonly used, in traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine, as a tonic for the circulation.

Peanuts contain around 1 micrograms per gram and red grapes about 80 but a glass of red wine storms into the lead with a whopping 600-700 micrograms! That should expunge any guilt next time you visit your wine shop! "Just following doctor's orders"!

In fact, the relatively high wine intake amongst the French seems to reduce incidences of cardiac disease, despite their love of good food. Though this French Paradox seems to have some admirable health benefits, it does not seem to protect them against liver disease, which may be bad news for all of you about to fill up your third glass this evening. The perceived wisdom amongst scientists who have studied the beneficial effects of resveratrol say that two glasses daily are optimum. I can now see people rushing out to buy 1/2 litre glasses - no, that's cheating! Ah, what the heck, please yourselves!

Resveratrol also has antiproliferative actions, inhibiting cancer cell and tumour growth, and is involved in inhibiting an important enzyme in tumour growth. This clever little compound also reduces deposition of plaques on blood vessels, stimulates the immune system in fighting cancer, inhibits oxidisation of LDL-Cholesterol and, if that were not enough, also is a good anti-inflammatory. Research continues and more beneficial characteristics are being discovered daily.

ANTI AGING - The Holy Grail

Is there no end to what Resveratrol can do! As well as being a powerful antioxidant it seem that there is great interest in it's anti-aging antioxidant properties. According to an article in The Times. "..."It works by binding to a class of proteins called sirtuins which regulate the repair of cells and dramatically boosts their efficiency. Studies have shown that it has an impressive anti-inflammatory action which, in animals, has delayed the process of ageing and increased lifespan by up to 50%." Just before you rush out to stock up with your favourite 'Chateau Colostomy', I would like to point out that tests on mice, fed a reduced carbohydrate diet, also showed an increase in life span of 50%! The report doesn't say if red wine was part of their diet!!

At the end of the day, to my way of thinking, as with everything in Life moderation is the name of the game. Enjoy a glass or two with your evening meal while your chat with your family and catch up on everybody's daily events. Eat as much organic fruit & vegetables as you can, take organic food supplements, exercise in moderation and learn to be at peace with, and love, yourself. If you don't love yourself, how can you love a

r concentrations are found in the skin of the grape, which protects it against fungal and micro-organism attacks. Resveratrol is found in much higher quantities in red wine than in white, due to there being not much if it in the white skins, which are discarded before vinification; I wonder whether Bacchus preferred red or white wine?! Maybe he didn't care!

Other food sources of resveratrol include peanuts and mulberries and it is found in quite large amounts in the dried roots & stems of the Japanese Knotweed (Poligonium cuspidatum), obtainable mainly through health stores. The Japanese Knotweed is commonly used, in traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine, as a tonic for the circulation.

Peanuts contain around 1 micrograms per gram and red grapes about 80 but a glass of red wine storms into the lead with a whopping 600-700 micrograms! That should expunge any guilt next time you visit your wine shop! "Just following doctor's orders"!

In fact, the relatively high wine intake amongst the French seems to reduce incidences of cardiac disease, despite their love of good food. Though this French Paradox seems to have some admirable health benefits, it does not seem to protect them against liver disease, which may be bad news for all of you about to fill up your third glass this evening. The perceived wisdom amongst scientists who have studied the beneficial effects of resveratrol say that two glasses daily are optimum. I can now see people rushing out to buy 1/2 litre glasses - no, that's cheating! Ah, what the heck, please yourselves!

Resveratrol also has antiproliferative actions, inhibiting cancer cell and tumour growth, and is involved in inhibiting an important enzyme in tumour growth. This clever little compound also reduces deposition of plaques on blood vessels, stimulates the immune system in fighting cancer, inhibits oxidisation of LDL-Cholesterol and, if that were not enough, also is a good anti-inflammatory. Research continues and more beneficial characteristics are being discovered daily.

ANTI AGING - The Holy Grail

Is there no end to what Resveratrol can do! As well as being a powerful antioxidant it seem that there is great interest in it's anti-aging antioxidant properties. According to an article in The Times. "..."It works by binding to a class of proteins called sirtuins which regulate the repair of cells and dramatically boosts their efficiency. Studies have shown that it has an impressive anti-inflammatory action which, in animals, has delayed the process of ageing and increased lifespan by up to 50%." Just before you rush out to stock up with your favourite 'Chateau Colostomy', I would like to point out that tests on mice, fed a reduced carbohydrate diet, also showed an increase in life span of 50%! The report doesn't say if red wine was part of their diet!!

At the end of the day, to my way of thinking, as with everything in Life moderation is the name of the game. Enjoy a glass or two with your evening meal while your chat with your family and catch up on everybody's daily events. Eat as much organic fruit & vegetables as you can, take organic food supplements, exercise in moderation and learn to be at peace with, and love, yourself. If you don't love yourself, how can you love

with a whopping 600-700 micrograms! That should expunge any guilt next time you visit your wine shop! "Just following doctor's orders"!

In fact, the relatively high wine intake amongst the French seems to reduce incidences of cardiac disease, despite their love of good food. Though this French Paradox seems to have some admirable health benefits, it does not seem to protect them against liver disease, which may be bad news for all of you about to fill up your third glass this evening. The perceived wisdom amongst scientists who have studied the beneficial effects of resveratrol say that two glasses daily are optimum. I can now see people rushing out to buy 1/2 litre glasses - no, that's cheating! Ah, what the heck, please yourselves!

Resveratrol also has antiproliferative actions, inhibiting cancer cell and tumour growth, and is involved in inhibiting an important enzyme in tumour growth. This clever little compound also reduces deposition of plaques on blood vessels, stimulates the immune system in fighting cancer, inhibits oxidisation of LDL-Cholesterol and, if that were not enough, also is a good anti-inflammatory. Research continues and more beneficial characteristics are being discovered daily.

ANTI AGING - The Holy Grail

Is there no end to what Resveratrol can do! As well as being a powerful antioxidant it seem that there is great interest in it's anti-aging antioxidant properties. According to an article in The Times. "..."It works by binding to a class of proteins called sirtuins which regulate the repair of cells and dramatically boosts their efficiency. Studies have shown that it has an impressive anti-inflammatory action which, in animals, has delayed the process of ageing and increased lifespan by up to 50%." Just before you rush out to stock up with your favourite 'Chateau Colostomy', I would like to point out that tests on mice, fed a reduced carbohydrate diet, also showed an increase in life span of 50%! The report doesn't say if red wine was part of their diet!!

At the end of the day, to my way of thinking, as with everything in Life moderation is the name of the game. Enjoy a glass or two with your evening meal while your chat with your family and catch up on everybody's daily events. Eat as much organic fruit & vegetables as you can, take organic food supplements, exercise in moderation and learn to be at peace with, and love, yourself. If you don't love yourself, how can you love

tumour growth, and is involved in inhibiting an important enzyme in tumour growth. This clever little compound also reduces deposition of plaques on blood vessels, stimulates the immune system in fighting cancer, inhibits oxidisation of LDL-Cholesterol and, if that were not enough, also is a good anti-inflammatory. Research continues and more beneficial characteristics are being discovered daily.

ANTI AGING - The Holy Grail

Is there no end to what Resveratrol can do! As well as being a powerful antioxidant it seem that there is great interest in it's anti-aging antioxidant properties. According to an article in The Times. "..."It works by binding to a class of proteins called sirtuins which regulate the repair of cells and dramatically boosts their efficiency. Studies have shown that it has an impressive anti-inflammatory action which, in animals, has delayed the process of ageing and increased lifespan by up to 50%." Just before you rush out to stock up with your favourite 'Chateau Colostomy', I would like to point out that tests on mice, fed a reduced carbohydrate diet, also showed an increase in life span of 50%! The report doesn't say if red wine was part of their diet!!

At the end of the day, to my way of thinking, as with everything in Life moderation is the name of the game. Enjoy a glass or two with your evening meal while your chat with your family and catch up on everybody's daily events. Eat as much organic fruit & vegetables as you can, take organic food supplements, exercise in moderation and learn to be at peace with, and love, yourself. If you don't love yourself, how can you love

has an impressive anti-inflammatory action which, in animals, has delayed the process of ageing and increased lifespan by up to 50%." Just before you rush out to stock up with your favourite 'Chateau Colostomy', I would like to point out that tests on mice, fed a reduced carbohydrate diet, also showed an increase in life span of 50%! The report doesn't say if red wine was part of their diet!!

At the end of the day, to my way of thinking, as with everything in Life moderation is the name of the game. Enjoy a glass or two with your evening meal while your chat with your family and catch up on everybody's daily events. Eat as much organic fruit & vegetables as you can, take organic food supplements, exercise in moderation and learn to be at peace with, and love, yourself. If you don't love yourself, how can you love anyone else?