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"A varied selection of red and white wanes including a Catawba grape wine and "Eye of the Bee," a Concord grape wine made with honey. A Frey Grey Riesling/Cabemet Sauvignon (Frey Vineyards). B Canandaigua Wines (Canan-daigua wine Co.). B Coturri Wines (H. Cotum & Sons). B Gallo Wines (E & J Gallo Winery). Naturally fermented juice of the finest-quality vnne grapes. No sugar or water is ever added; no artificial coloring, flavoring, sulfur dioxide, or additives of any types are used. B Las Montanas Wines(Las IVIonta-nas Winery)." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic & Natural: how to avoid dangerous everyday products and buy or make safe ones (Get the book.)

"The Organic wine Works Wines (The Organic wine Works). Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon with no sulfites added. Paul Thomas Wines (Paul Thomas). Crimson Rhubarb wine with no sulfites added. Robert Kacher Selections. Two estate wines from Provence. Terry Tfieise Selections. Several German wines. Vineyard Brands/Robert Haas Selections. Imports three organically grown French wines—one made with biodynamically grown grapes. Weygant-Metzler Importing. Small estate Ftench burgundies. Earthwise nonalcoholic beverages Olde Norfolk Punch (Traditional Products)." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise (Get the book.) "California's largest organically grown wine producer. French colombard, gray riesling, sauvignon blanc, chardon-nay, pinot noir, zinfandel, and cabernet sauvignon. H. Coturri & Sons Wines (H. Coturri 6k Sons). Some wines made with organically grown grapes. All made with traditional methods and no sulfites added. Hidden Cellars wine (Hidden Cellars). Chardonnay. Las Montanas Wines (Las Montanas). One of California's oldest wine producers. Zinfandel and Cabernet Sauvignon with no added sulfites. Octopus Mountain Wines (Octopus Mountain). Olson Wines (Olson Vineyards). Organic Vintages." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise (Get the book.)

"And the wine writers for the Wall Street Journal described their policy as follows: For this column, we do not accept free wine, free trips, or free meals. We attend only events that are open to the public. We do not meet with winemakers when they visit New York. We buy all of our wines off retail shelves unless specifically noted otherwise. We shop, both in person and online, at retail stores all over the U.S., from Los Angeles to Chicago to Tallahassee, Fla. We taste wines blind unless noted otherwise. We believe wines should speak for themselves." - Jerome P. Kassirer, On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health (Get the book.)

"It is not clear whether there are any significant differences between red wine, white wine, liquor, and beer. However, researchers have observed the "French paradox": in France, saturated fat intake and mean cholesterol levels are high, but heart disease mortality is low. Wide publicity about this paradox has asserted that red wine consumption in France is high and is responsible for the unexpected results. As a consequence, a general perception exists that red wine is especially beneficial." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The answer seems to lie in the red wine swirling in French wine glasses, wine that is an excellent source of polyphenols (the same class of nutrients to which green tea's active ingredients belong). As antioxidants, red wine's polyphenols are believed to mitigate the effects of a fatty diet and smoking.3 A similar paradox is seen in Japan. Despite a high percentage of smokers (estimated to be as much as 75 percent of adult men), Japan has an astonishingly low rate of heart disease. It seems possible that the polyphenols in green tea cause the same paradox that those in red wine lead to." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"Swiss, Cheddar) Homemade yogurt Red wine Red wine vinegar Rose Beer Food marinated in beer or wine Preserved fish, meat, or poultry (e.g., smoked fish or meat, sausage, salami, pickled herring) Allowable Unaged cheeses (e.g., cottage, cream, farmer) Yogurt made by reliable manufacturers White wine Distilled alcohol (alcohol tolerance may be reduced) Fresh fish, meat, or poultry Poultry that was fresh when canned or frozen Foods and Medications Vegetables Must Avoid Broad beans (e.g." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The answer seems to lie in the red wine swirling in French wine glasses, wine that is an excellent source of polyphenols (the same class of nutrients to which green tea's active ingredients belong). As antioxidants, red wine's polyphenols are believed to mitigate the effects of a fatty diet and smoking.3 A similar paradox is seen in Japan. Despite a high percentage of smokers (estimated to be as much as 75 percent of adult men), Japan has an astonishingly low rate of heart disease. It seems possible that the polyphenols in green tea cause the same paradox that those in red wine lead to." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"B Canandaigua Wines (Canan-daigua wine Co.). B Coturri Wines (H. Cotum & Sons). B Gallo Wines (E & J Gallo Winery). Naturally fermented juice of the finest-quality vnne grapes. No sugar or water is ever added; no artificial coloring, flavoring, sulfur dioxide, or additives of any types are used. B Las Montanas Wines(Las IVIonta-nas Winery). Do-It-Yourself The Country Store & Farm, Life Tools Co-op, Milan Laboratory and Nichols Garden Nursery all carry instructions and supplies for making additive-free beer or wane at home. See also Juices & Fruit Drinks." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic & Natural: how to avoid dangerous everyday products and buy or make safe ones (Get the book.)

"Whether or not to drink wine, however, involves a number of factors. Some people are prone to alcoholism, and need to avoid alcoholic beverages. Others suffer from allergic reactions to the sulfites in wine, especially red wine. People with heart arrhythmias or prostate problems might also find their conditions exacerbated by strong wines. There is also some fear that alcohol promotes breast cancer, although I do not find the data for this compelling. But if you can and do enjoy wine, get some French red wine and enjoy from as little as two glasses per week to as many as two per day." - Ralph Moss, PhD, Antioxidants Against Cancer: How to activate your bod natural healing powers with today's most protective and immune-boosting supplements and foods (Get the book.)

"There are two ways to make an herbal wine. One, which is simple and easy, entails making a tincture of the herbs in brandy, burgundy or rice wine. The other involves making a wine from scratch with the herbs, water, yeast and sugar. Dandelion and fruit wines are well known in this form. As this is complicated and entails some detailed instructions and care, this method is not described here. However, you may investigate doing this on your own by asking at a beer or wine making store for instructions and equipment and by using herbs in the process. Wine 1. Place whole herbs in bottle. 2." - Lesley Tierra, Herbs of Life: Health & Healing Using Western & Chinese Techniques (Get the book.)

"Of particular interest is the correlation of heart protection with wine consumption. The cholesterol-lowering effect of spirits is not unique to wine. However, red wine contains abundant tannins and other polyphenols, and drinking red wine increases the antioxidant capacity of serum.131 Such experiments suggest the absorption of polyphenols. Red wine has a higher phenol antioxidant index measured against isolated LDL than white wine." - Michael T. Murray, ND, Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1 (Get the book.)

"Mediterranean Flavor Combinations Italian/French Rosemary/thyme/red wine Sorrel, watercress, or chervil/lemon or white wine Thyme/lemon/pepper Olives/sun-dried tomatoes/garlic/rosemary White wine/garlic/parsley/tomatoes (optional) Olive oil/garlic/basil Anchovies/capers/lemon or white wine/garlic/parsley/tomatoes (optional) Sage/pasta or meat/nuts/Parmesan cheese Basil/oregano/thyme/bay leaf/rosemary Butter/shallots/thyme or tarragon/white wine Italy and France use wine and vinegar for cooking." - Jennifer Workman, Stop Your Cravings: A Balanced Approach to Burning Fat, Increasing Energy, and Reducing Stress (Get the book.)

"Others suffer from allergic reactions to the sulfites in wine, especially red wine. People with heart arrhythmias or prostate problems might also find their conditions exacerbated by strong wines. There is also some fear that alcohol promotes breast cancer, although I do not find the data for this compelling. But if you can and do enjoy wine, get some French red wine and enjoy from as little as two glasses per week to as many as two per day. Remember that resveratrol disappears from an uncorked bottle of wine at room temperature in a day, but will last about a week in the refrigerator." - Ralph Moss, PhD, Antioxidants Against Cancer: How to activate your bod natural healing powers with today's most protective and immune-boosting supplements and foods (Get the book.)

"If these patients drink wine, I will recommend white wine over red wine, since white wine is rich in copper, which they need, and red wine is higher in iron, which they don't need. One final warning on the fast metabolizer. They tend to be low on copper, which makes it dangerous to give high levels of vitamin C. Vitamin C lowers copper, which is already low. Vitamin C raises iron, which is already too high. It also raises the sodium level, which may also be too high. 39.2 copper rules the roost 39.2." - Sam Biser, Sam Biser's save your life collection: A Layman's course in curing last-stage diseases (Get the book.)

"Roman wine was contaminated with lead due to the practice of simmering grape syrup in lead vessels to enhance flavor. Historians speculate that infertility and mental infirmity due to lead poisoning from excessive wine consumption figured in the decline of Roman civilization. Perhaps an explanation for Nero's behavior. Today, we extract a billion tons of lead a year from the earth's crust, and it is poisoning us. Lead exposure comes from paints, batteries, and drinking water flowing through lead-lined pipes. Lead emissions from industry pollute our food and water." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"To prepare the wine a large handful of Juniper berries is placed in a gallon of any kind of good quality wine. The bottle is capped and allowed to stand for three weeks. During this period the bottle is shaken thoroughly once a day. At the end of three weeks the berries are strained off and thrown away. The Juniper wine is used as a kidney and stomach tonic. One small wineglass of the wine is taken a day. Juniper Berry Oil. Commercial oil of Juniper berries sold on the market is obtained chiefly from the ripe fruit." - Richard Lucas, Secrets of the Chinese Herbalists (Get the book.)

"If these patients drink wine, I will recommend white wine over red wine, since white wine is rich in copper, which they need, and red wine is higher in iron, which they don't need. One final warning on the fast metabolizer. They tend to be low on copper, which makes it dangerous to give high levels of vitamin C. Vitamin C lowers copper, which is already low. Vitamin C raises iron, which is already too high. It also raises the sodium level, which may also be too high. 39.2 copper rules the roost 39.2." - Sam Biser, Sam Biser's save your life collection: A Layman's course in curing last-stage diseases (Get the book.)

"Red Wine's Effect on the Heart Red wine may suppress one of the main chemical culprits thought to cause heart disease. A new study has found that red wine blocks a cellular compound thought to be a key factor in heart disease, thus bolstering claims that red wine carries more health benefits than other alcoholic beverages (Corder, Douthwaite, Lees, Khan, Viseu dos Santos, Wood, et al. 2001). The study suggests that nonalcoholic extracts from red wine inhibit the formation of endothelin-1, a chemical that causes blood vessels to constrict." - James F. Durante, Cheryl L. Durante, John G., M.D. Furiasse, The Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome / Dysautonomia Survival Guide (Get the book.)

"If these patients drink wine, I will recommend white wine over red wine, since white wine is rich in copper, which they need, and red wine is higher in iron, which they don't need. One final warning on the fast metabolizer. They tend to be low on copper, which makes it dangerous to give high levels of vitamin C. Vitamin C lowers copper, which is already low. Vitamin C raises iron, which is already too high. It also raises the sodium level, which may also be too high. 39.2 copper rules the roost 39.2." - Sam Biser, Sam Biser's save your life collection: A Layman's course in curing last-stage diseases (Get the book.)

"As a result, food is best experienced in the back of the mouth, especially when it is rolled around and massaged so as to allow it to give off vapors. wine connoisseurs understand these requirements very well. To taste a wine and judge its quality, they take a sip, hold the wine in their mouths, suck some air in through the teeth, and then tilt their heads back just a bit to let the wine flow to the critical region where they gurgle it. This procedure presents the wine to the maximum number of taste buds while simultaneously allowing it to vaporize and stimulate odor receptors in the nose." - Michael Gershon, The Second Brain: A Groundbreaking New Understanding of Nervous Disorders of the Stomach and Intestine (Get the book.)

"She took the last sip of wine. "But overall, I don't think much would happen if medicine disappeared." The wine was gone. With the darkening, the tree frogs' song turned shrill. Mosquitoes circled, smelling our blood. After a night of strange dreams, at least for me, we continued talking. "If medicine disappeared," Fran said, "there are some things we wouldn't miss." "Such as..." "Such as fatal reactions to prescription drugs." A trip to the library revealed some amazing stuff." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Red wine is a good source of flavonoids and many people have suggested that the liberal French consumption of red wine protects against coronary heart disease. Several studies have found that a glass or two of wine daily protects against heart disease and it seems likely that red wine is more protective than white wine, suggesting that the benefits might be unrelated to the alcohol. Researchers involved in the Zutphen elderly study assessed the flavonoid intakes of 805 men aged from 65 to 84 years in 1985. The major sources of flavonoid intake were found to be tea, onions, and apples." - Nicola Reavley, The New Encyclopedia of Vitamins, Minerals, Supplements and Herbs (Get the book.)

"But isn't it true that a great vineyard will almost always produce a better tasting wine than Ripple—a standardized wine, if you will? And that's the problem with standardization. It lowers the bar of what we can expect from herbal formulations. Standardized formulas will never match the quality (and healing power) of a non-standardized formula made from the highest quality herbs because the standardized formula seeks to conttol one, two or three "identified" active ingredients at the expense of all the other "active" ingredients that we don't yet know about." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"By the standards of most official dietary guidelines, the French eat poorly: way too much saturated fat and wine. The Greeks too have their own paradox; defying the recommendation that we get no more than 30 percent of our calories from fats, they get 40 percent, most of it in the form of olive oil. So researchers begin looking for synergies between nutrients: Might the antioxidants in the red wine help metabolize the fats? Perhaps." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "What nutritionism sees when it looks at the French paradox is a lot of slender French people eating gobs of saturated fat washed down with wine. What it fails to see is a people with a completely different relationship to food than we have. Nutritionists pay far more attention to the chemistry of food than to the sociology or ecology of eating. All their studies of the benefits of red wine or foie gras overlook the fact that the French eat very differently than we do.They seldom snack, and they eat most of their food at meals shared with other people." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "HAVE A GLASS OF wine WITH D I N N E R . wine may not be the X factor in the French or Mediterranean diet, but it does seem to be an integral part of those dietary patterns. There is now abundant scientific evidence for the health benefits of alcohol to go with a few centuries of traditional belief and anecdotal evidence. Mindful of the social and health effects of alcoholism, public health authorities are loath to recommend drinking, but the fact is that people who drink moderately and regularly live longer and suffer considerably less heart disease than teetotalers." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Some eight to ten thousand years ago, one of our ancestors figured out that if you tightly covered a container of grape juice, it would turn to wine. The germ that ferments wine is a yeast that grows naturally on the surface of the grape. Nowadays winemakers introduce a particular strain of yeast that has been selected because of its especially good winemaking properties, but you can still produce wine from the naturally occurring germs that live on the surface of a healthy grape and account for the whitish coating that you see on unwashed grapes." - Sidney MacDonald Baker, Karen Baar, The Circadian Prescription: Get in Step with Your Body's Natural Rhythms to Maximize Energy, Vitality, Longevity (Get the book.)

"Sprinkle with half of the wine or cider. (Save the rest for use later.) 5. Place pork atop apple-carrot-onion mixture. 6. Transfer baking dish to oven and roast until apple-onion mixture is soft and brown and meat thermometer inserted into the center of the pork registers 150°F, about 20 minutes. 7. Remove baking dish from oven and add remaining wine or hard cider. Cook for an additional 3 minutes. 8. Remove baking dish and transfer pork to platter. Cover with foil. Let stand 5 minutes. 9. Cut pork on diagonal into V^-inch-thick slices." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

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