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  • January 15th 2011 Issue
  • Story by Melissa Hansen
  • Wine is good for you

    Two decades after espousing the concept, Dr. Curtis Ellison is even more convinced that a daily dose of wine is good for the health.

    Published January 15, 2011 Add health benefits to the list of what’s good about Washington State’s grape industry. Moderate consumption of alcohol—especially red wine, and to a lesser degree grape juice—really is good for you, says a leading health researcher, more than 20 years after he first espoused the ­concept. Washington’s grape industry, with its value-added impacts of tourism and tax revenues, is already one of the agricultural darlings of the state. But a glass a day of wine could also help keep Washingtonians healthy, and keep wine sales and the industry strong. Dr. Curtis Ellison of Boston University School […]

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