Ben-Gurion University of the Negev report finds that red wine can help people suffering from type 2 diabetes

When Dr. Iris Shai was looking for participants for a two-year study on the effects of moderate wine consumption in diabetics, she didn’t exactly advertise that they would be drinking wine with their prescribed Mediterranean diets.

“We didn’t want that to be the reason that people participated,” said Shai, a researcher at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Soroka Medical Center. “There was a very specific protocol for who could participate. They had to be 44 years old or older, we had to know their family histories.”

They also had to forego all junk food, eat lots of healthy fats and drink a glass of dry wine — from the Golan Heights Winery — every night at dinner, for two years.... Read More: Times of Israel