Can wine help cure cancer ?
Laboratory-mice genetically inclined to develop carcinoma received food containing solid red wine extracts.
The result was that it took much longer than normal for those mice to develop cancer and their life expectation increased by 40% in comparison with that of mice normally fed.
This surprising study was carried out by a team of researchers from the University of Davis - California.
Researchers attribute this result to the presence in red wine of polyphenols, in particular to catechine, and to their antioxidizing properties (see composition of wine).
The same protection exists in tea and in a great number of fruits and vegetables.
A recent article in the New York Times said that it seems that resveratol, present in the skin of grapes, inhibits the action of agents favourising cancer. It is the case in leukaeamious cells.
But one must be very cautious in this matter.
