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Moderate wine intake improves metabolic profile for type 2 diabetes

New research suggests that drinking a glass of red wine each night with dinner in patients with well controlled type 2 diabetes can improve a person’s metabolic profile over two years.

The findings by Professor Iris Shai, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Professor Meir Stampfer, Harvard School of Public Health, was unveiled at this year’s European Congress on Obesity in Prague. Recommendations for moderate alcohol consumption remain controversial, especially in the management of type 2 diabetes (T2D) but by adding to the relative lack of long-term randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in this area, the authors hope to expand understanding of its impact. Prof Shai said: “This first long-term large scale alcohol trial suggests that ini¬tiating moderate wine intake, especially red-wine, among well-controlled T2D, and as part of healthy diet, is

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