One of the best-known stories about the health benefits of eating fruit is called French Paradox - the condition of unexpected low incidence of cardiovascular disease in French citizens who regularly eat extraordinary quantities of high fat foods and consume red wine. These people should technically have high cardiovascular disease, but appears to be the chemicals that are protected in wine.
Although we now recognize that high-fat diets are undesirable, the potentialBenefits of a diet rich in whole food phytochemicals are obvious, when combined with other healthy dietary and lifestyle practices, such as maintaining a regular exercise program together.
Perhaps the most publicized phytochemical in red wine is resveratrol in the skin and seeds of red and purple grapes and dark berries like blueberries. With the chemical formula C14H12O3, resveratrol is chemically as stilbene, or viniferin phytoalexin defined (a Greek-derived term meaning"Protect" (alexin) or "defensive").
This description fits the role of resveratrol in the skin of plants as the primary fungicide and antiviral agent with strong antioxidant properties to protect against UV radiation, parasites and injury. Resveratrol belongs to the general class of plant chemicals called phenols or polyphenols, names of their composition of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms in 6-carbon rings.
Benefits of resveratrol
With the consumption ofblue, red, purple and black-skinned plants rich in resveratrol, can humans gain offers this protection. Early medical research proves this to be true, like resveratrol has been shown in preliminary studies on laboratory animals to:
• Increased blood circulation and reduce the extent of damage to brain cells after stroke
• Reduce the activity of the brain inflammatory mediators in a model of Alzheimer's disease
• reducing vascular plaque formation in rats given a high-fatNutrition
• Increase the speed of healing in skin wounds
• Protect yourself against lipid oxidation in a model of pancreatitis
• Protect against cellular pathology in a model of diabetic kidney disease
• Protect against liver damage in a model of cholestasis or bile duct occlusion
• Protect against cartilage deterioration in a model of osteoarthritis
• Promote anti-clotting mechanisms in blood
• Suppresses appetite and in turn contribute toTo control weight or loss
• the development of sperm production
• prevent the formation of cataracts
• Inhibit proliferation of the herpes simplex virus
• Extend the life of yeast, worms, fish and fruit flies, possibly through mechanisms that relate to aging on slowing of cell death
Anti-cancer activity
Resveratrol is shown convincingly health effects in laboratory studies is the broad-spectrum anti-cancer activity. The online database formedical literature for the U.S. National Institutes of Health, PubMed, called nearly 500 publications in the last ten years of research on resveratrol as a cancer chemopreventive nutrient.
Experimental models of breast, prostate, lung, blood, skin, brain, kidney, bladder, tongue, esophagus and colon cancer signs of the positive effects of resveratrol. It also appears to sensitize cells to cancer therapy agent, improving the usefulness of these drugs. Even when used in combination with otherplant phenols, resveratrol seems to be enhanced anti-cancer activities, from which the potential benefits of antioxidant synergy from a mixed diet with plenty of colorful fruits and vegetables rich in phytochemicals.
Resveratrol, the action of inflammatory mediators and growth of blood vessels (inhibit tumors so-called anti-angiogenesis), as well as its ability to accelerate the rate of cancer cell death (called apoptosis, "eh-po-toe-SIS), are synergistic effects onAnti-cancer activity. Stabilizes In other experiments, resveratrol enzymes synthesize nitro-oxygen radicals such as nitric oxide that may be involved in cancer development.
In summary, resveratrol is effective against mechanisms that the initiation, promotion and progression of the growth of tumor cells in laboratory models. It is considered one of the most promising natural anti-cancer agents.
Luckily for us, resveratrol can be easily introduced into the diet by selecting foodssuch as:
o red grapes and dark grape juice
o red wines (and even white, but with lower levels of resveratrol)
o blackberries, blueberries, cranberries and lingonberries (and their juices)
o Pistachio
o peanuts with skins and peanut butter
To take home message: Eat berries! Drinking red wine! And be merry!
Reading
On PubMed http://pubmed.gov; type "resveratrol and" in the search space, add the topic of your interest, and then click Go to viewLiterature.
Linus Pauling Institute Micronutrient Information Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/
Copyright 2006 Berry Health Inc.
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