Red wine helps reduce cardiovascular diseases and obesity

Author: Per Karlsson
August 20, 2010

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Author: Per Karlsson
August 20, 2010

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Article filed in: News » Red wine helps reduce cardiovascular diseases and obesity

Two new studies have shown that reveratrol, that can be found naturally in many red wines, have positive effects to fight cardiovascular diseases, which was well known previously, and also obesity. According to the World Health Organisation obesity affects 1.6 billion people. The two reports were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Now, if one does not want to drink red wine one can get resveratrol nutritional additive as pills too.

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Per Karlsson

Swedish. Per is co-founder together with his wife Britt of BKWine. Rumour has it that his interest in wine started already when he was 11. Just like Britt he visits some 200 wineries each year on wine tours and for journalistic research. He writes about wine primarily online on BKWine Magazine and in the BKWine Brief. Per is also a professional photographer, specialising in wine and travel photography. See BKWine Photography for more on this. Since a few years back he has also branched out into video production on the same subject. He has contributed all images, and some text, to BKWine’s wine books.

Author:

Per Karlsson