DRINKING red wine may lower the risk of aggressive prostate cancer. A study at Harvard University in the US found that moderate red wine drinkers had a 16 per cent lower risk of developing the disease, while men already diagnosed with prostate cancer who drank red wine were 50 per cent less likely to see it progress into a deadlier form.
The study, reported in the journal Cancer Prevention And Control, was based on 47,568 cancer-free men and 5,182 men with localised prostate cancer.
Exactly why red wine appears to have a protective effect is unclear. One theory is that it is a result of antioxidants such as resveratrol, the concentration of which in red wine is tenfold that in white.
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