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Why Do Red Wine and Grapes Make You Sexier?

French are real lover boys due to the consume of red wine. Resveratrol, a product found in red wine and known for its antioxidant and anticancer effects, has been proved by many researches to boost heart health, erection and to impede prostate cancer. But resveratrol, a type of polyphenol, is abundant also in red win...

30 January 2008
03:35 GMT

Expensive Wines Trigger More Pleasure in the Brain

A $150 pair of jeans is much better than a $30 one or is it just an illusion? You are paying in fact for the brand, but no matter what, you'll always think that more expensive stuff is better. This has got scientific support with a new research published in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Aca...

16 January 2008
03:00 GMT

The Mystery of Pinot Noir Decoded

A good wine does not come cheap. Usually, if you go to an European country with tradition on wines, all that is under $8 dollars per liter could be discarded. Of course, the most exquisite wines can reach hundreds of dollars and in luxury restaurants this can go further. It is said that the quality of a wine is in th...

19 December 2007
02:46 GMT

Some Very Old Foods

1.Researchers were taken by surprise a few years ago when they found two wine bottles under the ruins of a London building destroyed in 1682. The cork tap of one bottle had rotten and the wine had turned into vinegar, while the other bottle was hermetically encased because of its tap fixed by wires and wax. With a sp...

5 December 2007
06:55 GMT

Square-Enix Offers You a "Wine Fantasy"

This is not yet another installment in the neverending Final Fantasy series, but rather a new and original title that introduces you to the world of fine wine tasting. Keep in mind that we're dealing with a DS game that comes with a bottle of wine, courtesy of Square-Enix's partner, Mercian. This original ...

7 November 2007
09:25 GMT

New Technology Tells You If a Particular Wine Will Give You Headaches!

Let's face it. There wasn't 'just one glass' too muchlast night you scored a new record and you cannot even remember how you got home. And now you're saying "It's the last time I do that!" of course until the next time. Now, a new device made at University of California, Berkeley, an...

2 November 2007
05:10 GMT

No Matter What Kind of Alcohol a Woman Drinks, This Will Destroy Her Boobs

After small quantities of alcohol have been considered to improve heart health for such a long time, recent researches show that this also can increase the risk of breast cancer. And one of the largest individual researches focusing on the effects of alcohol reveals that it does not matter what a woman drinks: wine, ...

28 September 2007
14:36 GMT

Red Wine Saves Men's Sexuality

Now, we know why the French are real lover boys. And this, even at old ages. A team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has discovered that nutrients encountered in red wine could decrease the risk of prostate cancer. Even when successfully operated, the surgery of prostate cancer presents a high risk of...

3 September 2007
13:51 GMT

What Gives The Wine Its Peppery Aroma?

A good wine's quality is the result of a combination between a sandy soil and the hot and dry summer, besides the grape variety. The strain of yeast used in the fermentation process can also give particular features of a top quality wine, like smell, color and flavor. Now, Australian chemists have come with the ...

17 August 2007
06:37 GMT

What's Behind Wine Poisoning?

Doctors say that a cup of wine per day is pure health. But sometimes just one cup can send you to hospital and it's not because of alcohol abuse. A Spanish team has found that wasp venom in wine and grape juice seems to be the cause of wine poisoning, severe allergies induced by small quantities of ingested wine...

16 August 2007
06:25 GMT

How to Determine the Age of Wine Based on Its Radioactivity!

A good wine does not come cheap. Usually, if you go to a European country with tradition on wines, all that is under $8 dollars per liter could be discarded. Of course, the most exquisite wines can reach hundreds of dollars and in luxury restaurants this can go further. But what about a bottle of wine costing $ 160,0...

29 June 2007
15:11 GMT

Beer, Found Healthier Than Wine

"The beer belly" is a misnomer as the beer per se does contain many calories.But beer is indeed an appetite stimulant and its consume can lead to storing pounds. Beer also has high levels of purines, which boost the levels of uric acid in the joints, aggravating the gout.Black beer was once promoted as a rich source ...

28 May 2007
14:51 GMT

Red Wine Found Beneficial for Man's Sexual Health

It's interesting that in many languages, when people toast, they make a hail for good health "Prost!" in German languages, "Salud!" in Spanish, "Sanatate" in Romanian and so on. This wishful thinking is based on the subconscious belief that the content of the glass is really beneficial for the health. Indeed, fo...

22 May 2007
17:51 GMT

A 2,200-Year-Old Wine !

At least some of the amphoras suspected to be 2,200-year-old dug in a Bosnia-Herzegovina swamp are believed to have carried wine, as expressed by experts on Monday. "A preliminary analysis showed amphoras, found at what are believed remains of the first-ever discovered Illyrian ships, were used for transporting wine...

10 April 2007
07:20 GMT

Wine Can Induce Cancer

They say "Good wine, long life!"But a new research at Queen's University points out the fact that the notion of "natural" foods may hide a high risk for cancer.Actually, some common foods and alcoholic beverages like wine, cheese, yogurt and bread present some minute levels of carcinogens (cancer inducing compou...

9 March 2007
06:01 GMT

... Get Cork

Your strategy of "conquering" a girl includes a bottle of good wine or Champaign, but have you ever wondered where does the cork come from?Cork is the product of an oak!In some coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, like Spain, France, Italy, but also in the African coast (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) and outside (Portuga...

5 March 2007
10:46 GMT


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