In this book, the effect of nutritional habits and wine consumption on
ageing and the main degenerative diseases (cardiovascular, cancer,
Alzheimer's, etc.) are considered through the most relevant
epidemiological and pharmacological studies. Newly isolated wine
polyphenols and tannins are presented and their structures and in
vitro biological properties are discussed that could strongly support
the hypotheses that those molecules could insure beneficial health
effects.
This book will be of particular interest to people involved in problems
of public health, but also in the wine industry or in wine making, as
well as to physicians who are concerned by the difficult question of
ageing and its related chronic diseases.