It's funny the older folks who are all like "in my day, we had bologna, salsberry steak, fries, chips, etc etc but we got exercise so we were all fine and dandy!"
While the #1 killer in America became heart disease in their now later years.
Correlation?
At least causes pause long enough to make me giggle.
Hey, as long as one has a glass or two of wine each day, one can eat the good stuff!
Truth We Won t Admit Drinking Is Healthy - Pacific Standard The Science of Society
True indeed.
Break this down into parts, though.
The alcohol thins your blood which is good for your heart in small doses.
The skin of the red grapes in the wine is what fights disease and aging for efficiently.
Take those two things,
minus the alcohol (wine), add an aspirin (thins blood) and red grapes, and you get the same effect minus the liver toxicity.
Not that I'd give up alcohol, I'm just saying - - - - - > to live an ample "I wanna live to be 150" lifestyle, that's what you get out of the study of drinking red wine.