This comes as little surprise. I mean when two things are matched so well, how can they not improve each other's inherent benefits? Miranda Hitti (medicinenet.com) writes:
Healthy Compounds in Red Wine May Offset Potentially Unhealthy Compounds in Meat?, Study Shows
June 27, 2008 — Having a meaty meal? Drinking a little red wine may make it healthier, thanks to compounds in red wine, an Israeli study shows.
The researchers cooked turkey? thighs and then ground them up for the study. They fed the ground turkey to rats, with or without red wine that had been stripped of its alcohol?.
When the rats finished eating, the researchers analyzed the rats' stomach and blood chemistry.
The rats that had eaten the turkey meat without the wine had high levels of chemicals that promote oxidation?, which has been linked to cancer, atherosclerosis, and other serious? diseases, the study states.
But the rats that got the turkey meat and the red wine had less of those oxidation chemicals in their stomach and blood after their meal.