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A cardiologist at England's Great Western Hospital has been prescribing two glasses of red wine a day to 400 patients for the last 2 years in the belief that the regimen will reduce their risk of a second heart attack by 50 percent. William McCrea, MD, says he began to recommend Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon to his cardiac patients after studying statistics from France.

"As a nation, they consume twice the amount of fat we do, they smoke more and don't do any more exercise than us, but their rate of deaths from heart attacks is half ours," he told The Guardian. "They drink red wine like we drink tea." Fortunately for the budget-conscious, McCrea believes cheaper wines are more healthful because they contain more antioxidants than do higher-quality wines, which are aged in barrels for longer periods.

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