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How red wine lost its health halo

By Alice Callahan
New York Times·
6 mins to read

In a 1991 segment of 60 Minutes, CBS correspondent Morley Safer asked how it could be that the French enjoyed high-fat foods like pâté, butter and triple crème brie yet had lower rates of heart disease than people in the United States.

“The answer to the riddle, the explanation of the paradox, may lie in this inviting glass,” Safer said, raising a glass of red wine to viewers.

Doctors believed that wine had “a flushing effect” that prevented blood clot-forming

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