- 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.
Diabetic Mediterranean Diet 