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Originally Posted by Bill
Make sangria - cut's down some of the bitterness of the tannins and phenols.
Or just get resveratrol and grape seed extracts?
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Sangria tastes even worse than plain wine.
From what my vascula surgeon has told me it isn't just the resveratrol in red wine that is beneficial it's actually the alcohol itself. In small dosages alcohol dissolves the fats in the blood that attach themselves to things like stints and artery grafts.
Actually I'm kind of hoping to develop a taste for wine since I've dated people that seemed to enjoy its taste so much.
I really love hard stinky cheeses and cheese is totally off my list of foods that I can consume if I would like to continue being able to walk with all these stints in me. So instead of snacking of cheese I've been experimenting with drinking a little red wine while snacking on tomato slices covered in sliced fresh garlic, cyanine peppers, fresh basil, smoked red peppers and a little Italian dressing as my evening snack. The wine actually seems to complement it.
Actually pretty much all the foods I enjoy are off my list so I'm really trying to find new ones to replace them with.
I really dislike the effects of alcohol so I don't worry about it ever becoming a problem. Actually there are enough bottles of alcoholic beverages in our house to stock a small bar which is rather ironic since neither Christy or I ever drink.
I'm pretty much out of options if this closes up again. Turns out that the part of the leg below the knee is supplied by just one major artery and if these stints clog up my only other option would be a graft from my aorta to my lower leg.