To Your Health

Distinguished medical professor and wine expert seeks 20 slightly overweight volunteers with steadily increasing cholesterol levels to drink a glass and a half a day of the best South African red wine. Must be willing to give blood samples.

David P. van Velden is hoping to learn exactly how drinking red wine helps prevent insulin resistance in people who are already showing the first symptoms of diabetes, and how it lowers cholesterol. Studies of the benefits of red wine are as

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