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White wine as good for your heart as red

Published:  15 October, 2008

A new study has shown that white wine might be just as good for your heart as red.

A new study has shown that white wine might be just as good for your heart as red.

In a study by researchers from the University of Connecticut in the US, rats who were fed white wine suffered less heart damage during cardiac arrest than animals fed grain alcohol such as beer or vodka, or water.

The benefits were reportedly similar to those found when the animals ingested red wine or the "wonder ingredient" found in grape skin - resveratrol.

Previously, it was believed only wine made using grape skin could prevent heart damage.

The flesh of the grape can do the same job as the skin," molecular biologist Dr Dipak Das told the New Scientist.

"In lab rats that suffered heart attacks, the animals that received wine or polyphenols experienced less heart damage, compared to rats fed water or straight liquor."

Das and his team gave lab rats the equivalent to one or two glasses a day of red or white Italian wines.

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