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Did you know that.
Daily wine and chocolate
boost life expectancy. Ingredients
form part of sevenfood
'polymeal' designed to
reduce heart disease risk.
A
daily meal with seven foods -
- including wine and chocolate
-- could cut heart disease
risk by 76 per cent, says a
team of Australian researchers.
They estimate that a
"polymeal" of wine, fish,
dark chocolate, fruit, vegetables,
almonds and garlic,
eaten every day (or at least
four times a week in the case
of fish) would increase men's
life expectancy by an average
of six and a half years
and women's by an average
of five years.
The findings
follow research in 2003 into
a so-called "polypill," a combination
of drugs taken in
one dose, which aimed to
reduce heart disease risk by
more than 80 per cent. Team
member Dr. Anna Peeters
from the Monash University
department of epidemiology
and preventive medicine in
Melbourne, Australia, says
her team devised the polymeal
as a non-drug alternative
to the polypill
* Reproduced with permission from Peter Svans
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