Can you get the health benefits of wine without the alcohol? Red wine is making a lot of news lately for its positive benefits on heart health. Doctors believe it may even be responsible for the so-called French paradox -- people in France eat high-fat diets, but have lower rates of heart disease than Americans do. One reason red wine seems to have beneficial effects is that it contains chemicals called flavonoids, which appear to help prevent heart disease. Researchers in California found that even with the alcohol removed, people who drink red wine had an increase in flavonoids in their blood. But the alcohol part of wine also appears to have beneficial effects, raising the level of H-D-L cholesterol -- the "good" cholesterol -- in the blood. Doctors participating in the Physicians' Health Study reported recently in the Journal of the ....

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