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Wine & Sanity
Aired November 12, 2002 - 10:26 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: All right, but you did hear this from me, check this out, red wine in moderate amounts they say, has been touted for its has potential health benefits. You may have heard these stories before, but now, there is a new study out there suggesting it might help prevent dementia and that's pretty heavy news.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: And we have our medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta here with details on that.
HARRIS: And you brought gifts.
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: I always bring gifts, I endear myself to the anchors this way. This is just grape juice unfortunately.
(CROSSTALK)
GUPTA: But I will tell you this, there's been thing out there for awhile called the French paradox. You probably heard of that, and basically means these people, in France, eating whatever they want, fatty foods, drinking a lot wine and having a surprisingly low rate of heart disease, despite the fact they are eating whatever they want.
For a while, they couldn't figure out why it was occurring, then they started to realize that the substance in the wine, probably flavonoids. The names not that important, but the substance is pretty important and now it's exactly as you say, Leon, they have actually looked at dementia, Alzheimer's, vascular dementia, and found that over 20 years, people who drink more red wine actually have a significantly lower incident of this dementia. Now, it could be one glass a wine a week or up to 21 a week some of these people are drinking, either way, you did get some benefit. The 21 drinkers are probably little bit happier.
HARRIS: Do they want us to help them figure that out?
GUPTA: Good study.
HARRIS: Is it one, is it 21? We are all for science here pushing the envelope. I would be more then willing to help.
KAGAN: If San was drinking that much wine, how would you know if they have dementia.
HARRIS: Exactly.
(CROSSTALK)
GUPTA: Actually there is a thing called alcoholic dementia as well, so you might have to control for that. But you know...
HARRIS: Why is it red wine that does this, and why is it dementia?
GUPTA: Well these flavenoid, again, the name not important, is actually an antioxidant. And these antioxidants, think of them as sort of the broom keepers of the body, they sweep up these bad ugly molecules that can cause aging, can contribute to things like heart disease. They can also cause things like dementia. If you are kind of sweeping them up with these antioxidants and maybe you will have a lower risk of these sorts of things. That's how they believe it works. Now it's not just red wine, you don't have to go out there and drink your 21 glasses a week.
There are other foods out there that have flavonoids as well. I think we have a list of them. There you can see, red grape juice. That's what I got for you guys, dark beer, berries, onions and garlic, you have to eat a lot of that. And tea, possibly as well, not herbal tea, but the green tea particularly has a lot of those flavonoids as well.
HARRIS: Daryn, you are a green tea drinker. You should like to hear that.
KAGAN: No, I don't like the green tea; I like the cinnamon.
HARRIS: Well the stinky tea.
(CROSSTALK)
KAGAN: That's what Bill Hemmer calls stinky tea. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Next time, a little pig noir armoire would be nice.
(CROSSTALK)
HARRIS: I am glad you didn't bring garlic an onions. Thanks you very much, Sanjay.
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Aired November 12, 2002 - 10:26 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: All right, but you did hear this from me, check this out, red wine in moderate amounts they say, has been touted for its has potential health benefits. You may have heard these stories before, but now, there is a new study out there suggesting it might help prevent dementia and that's pretty heavy news.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: And we have our medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta here with details on that.
HARRIS: And you brought gifts.
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: I always bring gifts, I endear myself to the anchors this way. This is just grape juice unfortunately.
(CROSSTALK)
GUPTA: But I will tell you this, there's been thing out there for awhile called the French paradox. You probably heard of that, and basically means these people, in France, eating whatever they want, fatty foods, drinking a lot wine and having a surprisingly low rate of heart disease, despite the fact they are eating whatever they want.
For a while, they couldn't figure out why it was occurring, then they started to realize that the substance in the wine, probably flavonoids. The names not that important, but the substance is pretty important and now it's exactly as you say, Leon, they have actually looked at dementia, Alzheimer's, vascular dementia, and found that over 20 years, people who drink more red wine actually have a significantly lower incident of this dementia. Now, it could be one glass a wine a week or up to 21 a week some of these people are drinking, either way, you did get some benefit. The 21 drinkers are probably little bit happier.
HARRIS: Do they want us to help them figure that out?
GUPTA: Good study.
HARRIS: Is it one, is it 21? We are all for science here pushing the envelope. I would be more then willing to help.
KAGAN: If San was drinking that much wine, how would you know if they have dementia.
HARRIS: Exactly.
(CROSSTALK)
GUPTA: Actually there is a thing called alcoholic dementia as well, so you might have to control for that. But you know...
HARRIS: Why is it red wine that does this, and why is it dementia?
GUPTA: Well these flavenoid, again, the name not important, is actually an antioxidant. And these antioxidants, think of them as sort of the broom keepers of the body, they sweep up these bad ugly molecules that can cause aging, can contribute to things like heart disease. They can also cause things like dementia. If you are kind of sweeping them up with these antioxidants and maybe you will have a lower risk of these sorts of things. That's how they believe it works. Now it's not just red wine, you don't have to go out there and drink your 21 glasses a week.
There are other foods out there that have flavonoids as well. I think we have a list of them. There you can see, red grape juice. That's what I got for you guys, dark beer, berries, onions and garlic, you have to eat a lot of that. And tea, possibly as well, not herbal tea, but the green tea particularly has a lot of those flavonoids as well.
HARRIS: Daryn, you are a green tea drinker. You should like to hear that.
KAGAN: No, I don't like the green tea; I like the cinnamon.
HARRIS: Well the stinky tea.
(CROSSTALK)
KAGAN: That's what Bill Hemmer calls stinky tea. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Next time, a little pig noir armoire would be nice.
(CROSSTALK)
HARRIS: I am glad you didn't bring garlic an onions. Thanks you very much, Sanjay.
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