I have been reading some interesting research on the benefits of drinking Purple Grape Juice.

While this wouldn't be feasible on the more restrictive LC Plans it would be ok for SugarBusters!

I started drinking 12 oz a day this week. I like the idea of drinking grapejuice over taking aspirin daily. Here's one of the articles I read:


FOR YOUR HEART: PURPLE GRAPE JUICE -- John Folts, director of the Coronary Thrombosis Research Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, says studies of flavonoids-substances that cause dark colors in some beers, red wines and purple grape juice-suggest those beverages may keep heart-damaging blood clots from forming. While aspirin alone is known to be "very good at turning platelets down," making them less sticky so they do not form clots, its effects are negated when adrenaline kicks in while exercising or under stress.

"With flavonoids," Folts explains: "the adrenaline has no effect, so the flavonoids keep on working."

Folts noted that flavonoids are found "in dark beer but not light beer; in tea but not in coffee; in purple grape juice but not in lighter grape juices that people give to babies; in red wines but not in white wines."