After yesterday's post on resveratrol, Gabrio wrote that wine has all the vitamins.
Not according to the Wine Pros, who list the percentage of daily requirements provided by a glass of wine of various types. The numbers are, unfortunately, miniscule.
The group has a vested interest in promoting the virtues of wine:
"We are a group of wine lovers. Each is connected to wine as a grape grower, merchant, or restaurateur."
And, as the New York Times noted in an editorial today, you'd need a whole lot of resveratrol to provide the benefit evident in mice.
Gaudeamus igitur.
Terry,
I'm sure you know I was joking about the vitamin thing, but I just want to make sure everyone else knows it.
Richard
Posted by: Richard | November 03, 2006 at 09:38 AM
Hey Terry, do you have a problem drinking 300 glasses of wine a day? I could like that!
Posted by: David | November 03, 2006 at 10:30 AM
Richard, I didn't really know if you were joking or not. It was a question I'd had for some time -- I had long forgotten the answer to it.
David, I'll try if you do!
Posted by: Terry Hughes | November 03, 2006 at 11:31 AM
I heard that you need 200 bottles of wine to have enough Resveratol to live longer.
For the vitimins I didn't say how much ore in the wine but just that there are all of them :)
At the end somebody will create a pill with Resveratrol and we will all live over 100 years crowding even more the already crowded planet of ours.
Eat Well Drink Better
Ciao
Posted by: Gabrio | November 03, 2006 at 01:04 PM
You bring up a good -- a sobering -- point, Gabrio. As the old reggae song goes, "Everybody want to go to heaven / But nobody want to die."
Speaking for myself, I can't say I relish the thought of living to 100. What I would like is to live energetically until my time is done at, oh, 75 - 80. I'm sure **those** numbers will change, if I manage to live that long.
Posted by: Terry Hughes | November 03, 2006 at 02:23 PM
I'm with you on that. It doesn't matter when you die but how u live up to that point. My Uncle lived close to the hundred and at 92 he was still traveling the world visiting his girlfriends and painting.
Posted by: Gabrio | November 04, 2006 at 06:39 PM
I think it was Mae West who said, "It isn't the men in my life that matters. It's the life in my men."
Heh heh heh heh...
Posted by: Terry Hughes | November 04, 2006 at 10:27 PM