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Cooking Light Magazine says the antioxidants found in wine vary with the year and region. However, two nutritional benefits of wine remain constant:
Potassium - helps maintain the body’s fluid balance
Alcohol - may help raise HDL (good) cholesterol, reduce blood clots, and lower blood pressure
Drink your favorite wine in moderation (that’s no more than 1-2 [...]

Telegraph.co.uk reports that dark-colored fruits and vegetables may fight colon cancer. Anthocyanins, the compounds that give dark red, purple, and blue fruits and vegetables their color, were found to slow the growth of human colon cancer cells by 50-80%. Monica Giusti was the lead author of the study conducted at Ohio State University. [...]

Research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that consuming cocoa reduces high blood pressure. News Target writes that researchers from Germany’s University Hospital of Cologne examined five studies on how cocoa affects blood pressure. The flavonoids in cocoa, procyanids, have been linked to reduction of cholesterol and blood clotting.
The studies [...]

Self Magazine reported on an egg study from researchers at Louisiana State University. The results showed that dieters who eat two eggs a day for breakfast lost 65% more weight and 83% more in waist circumference than people who eat bagels containing the same amount of calories. LSU’s researchers said the high protein [...]

A study in the Journal of Medicinal Foods found that drinking grape juice may reduce your risk of breast cancer.  EatingFabulous.com wrote that the Concord grape extract in purple Welch’s 100% Grape Juice has “breast cancer chemopreventive potential” because it protects healthy breast cells from DNA damage.
Welch’s website boasts that in an independent study of [...]