Red Wine Prescribed to British Cardiac Patients
 (London, Reuters Health, 7/7/03)

According to William McCrea, a heart surgeon at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, West England, the British have twice as many heart attacks as their French counterparts who smoke more, eat more fat and exercise as little. McCrea theorizes that the French tradition of drinking red wine may have a protective effect and so he prescribes 2 glasses of red wine per day to cardiac patients. He recommends cheaper wines because they contain more antioxidants than the aged varieties.