Red wine = clean eating??
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andtckrtoo
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Well, not really. There were studies where rats who had a certain amount of red wine (they were fed capsules - they weren't drunken rats) were able to stay slim without exercise and their insides were as fit as rats who were the equivilent to athletes in humans, but the amounts were something like 100 bottles of wine. I think more studies need to be done before we can make statements like that. That being said, a glass of red wine every now and again, can't hurt. It's having much more than that glass that hurts.
It's actually one of my pet peeves with the media - they publish findings without explaining them. Once you dig deeper, you realize you've been dupped.
It's actually one of my pet peeves with the media - they publish findings without explaining them. Once you dig deeper, you realize you've been dupped.
buffettgirl
Cathlete
Didn't I read in the Oxygen Clean Eating issue that wine and other alcoholic beverages were not part of a clean diet? I guess it depends on how far you are willing to take the idea of clean. I'm with the healthy hedonists and would rather drink wine then eat squeaky clean. But if I was striving for a very clean diet, I wouldn't drink.
RunnerGirl
Cathlete
I just finished reading the Tosca Reno book. She said that all alcohol is sugar and you should give it up to eat clean or just have a glass every once in awhile. The glass means about 6 ounces. For all you wine drinkers, which I count myself, 6 ounces is not very much! I measured it out last week!
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kathryn
Cathlete
Also, alcohol consumption increases the risk of breast cancer, and while it's recommended that men can have two glasses of wine a day (but it's not recommended to start drinking if you don't already do so), women should stick with one.
There are antioxidants in red wine, but they are also found in grapes and grape juice. That may be what the study was focused on.
When I see studies like this, I always wonder who funded them (like wine manufacturers, for example! Read T. Collin Campbells "The China Study" for an interesting 'insider's' look at how results of some scientific studies are skewed to get certain results.)
There are antioxidants in red wine, but they are also found in grapes and grape juice. That may be what the study was focused on.
When I see studies like this, I always wonder who funded them (like wine manufacturers, for example! Read T. Collin Campbells "The China Study" for an interesting 'insider's' look at how results of some scientific studies are skewed to get certain results.)