Red Wine With Meaty Meals Possibly Healthier Than Wine and Meat Alone

Meaty meal in the making

 Wine is a time-honored component of the healthy Mediterranean diet and, traditionally, is consumed with meals.

For science and food geeks, Bix at the Fanatic Cook blog has a post outlining how red wine consumption with meals might be healthy: it reduces blood levels of cytotoxic lipid peroxidation products like malondialdehyde.

By no means is Fanatic Cook always this esoteric.  Check out some of the other topics there.

Steve Parker, M.D.