NEW YORK, Nov.
7 (UPI) -- New York researchers are focusing on grape polyphenols in wine
and grape juice to help maintain long-term cognitive health.
Researchers
at the Center for Research in Alternative and Complementary Medicine in
Alzheimer’s disease research at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York
say Concord grape juice and red wine polyphenols show promise in counteracting
beta-amyloid plaques associated with cognitive decline.
Two recent population
studies associated moderate red wine and 100 percent fruit juice consumption
with lowering the risk of Alzheimer’s disease dementia.
"This grape
polyphenol research is preliminary, but very encouraging," Dr. Giulio Pasinetti,
director of the center and principal investigator of the research program
in polyphenolics. "The results show the potential protective role which
non-alcoholic, polyphenol-rich Concord grape juice may play in maintaining
long term cognitive health."
The research
was presented in San Diego at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.