Replies to post #144197 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[lee kramer]

dassoc: I don't know what "polyphenol" is. I don't know what an antioxident is [the opposite of an oxident?]...I'd rather jump off my roof than eat lumpy oatmeal. It was my daily breakfast when I was a 'youngen. Yukky stuff.

[Benj]

jdaasoc...I believe in the beneficial aspects of wine as well. Cholesterol reduction is a big one too. 20 years ago I had an operation at Stanford and I had the lowest level of cholesterol they had seen. I told them that it was due to red wine, that I felt it acted as a thinner toward
cholesterol. Years later the medical journals were saying the same thing. Also, Alexis Lichine, author of the Ecyclopedia of Wine and Eisenhower's wine man during WW2, and who, BTW, was there when Patton was in tears, pounding the table about going in and taking out Russia while we had the chance, extolled wine as providing 17-20% of the daily nutritional needs with the judicious consumption of about 3 glasses of wine a day. Cheers.