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                                         Wine ingredient protects against radiation: report






Tue Sep 23, 2008
 WASHINGTON
(Reuters) -

A natural antioxidant commonly found in red wine and fruit may protect against radiation exposure, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

Tests in mice showed that resveratrol, when altered using a compound called acetyl, could prevent some of the damage caused by radiation, the researchers told the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology meeting in Boston.

Drugs made that way might be used in a large-scale radiological or nuclear emergency, said Dr. Joel Greenberger, a radiation oncologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

"Currently there are no drugs on the market that protect against or counteract radiation exposure," he added. "Our goal is to develop treatments for the general population that are effective and non-toxic," Greenberger said in a statement.

"Small molecules which can be easily stored, transported and administered are optimal for this, and so far acetylated resveratrol fits these requirements well."




(Reporting by Maggie Fox; Editing by Peter Cooney) 
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                                   Study Suggests Red Wine May Protect Against Lung Cancer






By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
Oct. 7, 2008
 
TUESDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Men who drink a moderate amount of red wine may lower their risk of lung cancer, even if they smoke, researchers report.
 
"An antioxidant component in red wine may help to prevent lung cancer," said lead researcher Chun Chao, a research scientist with the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research and Evaluation. "The findings provide an impetus for future research to find out if there is something in red wine that may help to either prevent or treat lung cancer."


But the researchers cautioned that the findings don't mean that it's OK to smoke.


For the study, Chao's group collected data on 84,170 men who participated in the California Men's Health Study. Among these men, the researchers identified 210 cases of lung cancer.


The researchers found that there was, on average, a 2 percent lower risk of lung cancer associated with each glass of red wine consumed per month.


The greatest reduction was among men who smoked and drank one to two glasses of red wine a day. These men lowered their risk for lung cancer by 60 percent, Chao's group found.


The reduction wasn't as pronounced among nonsmokers who drank one to two glasses of red wine a day. And no reduction in risk for lung cancer was associated with white wine, beer or liquor, the researchers said.


Despite the findings, Chao warned against thinking that smoking and drinking red wine can actually prevent lung cancer.


"Men who smoke should stop smoking," she said. "Even men who drink one or two glasses of red wine per day still face a greater risk of lung cancer than do nonsmokers. This study should not be used as an excuse to drink more red wine. Moderation is always the best course."


The findings were published in the October issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.


Dr. Leonard Lichtenfeld, the American Cancer Society's deputy chief medical officer, doesn't think that one study proves that red wine will protect you from lung cancer.


"It's an interesting study, and it raises interesting questions about whether or not there is a cancer protective effect in red wine," he said. "It is important that this be looked at further to see if that association holds up."


Lichtenfeld noted that there have been previous reports of a benefit of red wine for cancer prevention that didn't pan out. "Before we get overly excited about this, we really need to see these effects replicated," he said.


"Clearly, we aren't recommending that smokers go out and start consuming large amounts of red wine as a potential protection from getting lung cancer," he added. "There are other research reports that show that any alcohol, including red wine, can increase the risk of other cancers such as breast cancer."




More information


For more on lung cancer, visit

the National Cancer Institute.
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                                          Albanians Adjust To Italy In The Most Unlikely Places





 
By RACHEL DONADIO
Published: October 2, 2008
The New York Times

CHIUSI, Italy — On a crisp fall morning just after Ramadan, Hysen and Kimete Murrizi stood side by side in a Tuscan vineyard, snipping fat bunches of grapes into red plastic buckets.




Kathryn Cook for The New York Times

An extended Albanian family, from left,

Lindita Hoxha and Kadife, Alessia and Azem Mema,
observing Ramadan’s end.


They worked their way quickly down a sloping hillside, picking grapes for Chianti, after having spent days select-
ing smaller grapes for more refined wines. On the nearby highway, passing truckers honked in a harvest greeting.

The Murrizis are among tens of thousands of Albanians who arrived in Italy in the 1990s after the collapse of their country’s Communist dictatorship and economy. That they should become skilled vineyard workers is somewhat incongruous because Mrs. Murrizi is an observant Muslim who fasted for Ramadan and does not drink alcohol.

She acknowledged the culture clash. “Yes,” Mrs. Murrizi said with a warm smile in fluent Italian. “But that’s the
way it is. Unfortunately I have to work. Life is like that.”

Mrs. Murrizi, 46, has wavy light brown hair and green eyes. She left factory work to join her husband in Italy in 1998. Mr. Murrizi, 52, a former truck driver with a tanned face and close-cropped gray hair, left Durres, Albania,
for Tuscany in 1993.

Mr. Murrizi is not so observant as his wife, and over the years he has become a wine fan. “Especially the ‘vino nobile,’ ” he said, as a smile lit up his face. “But also the Chianti.”

Mrs. Murrizi said: “I tried it once because Hysen said, ‘Come on, you’ve worked here for so long, try it.

’ I liked it.”

But for religious reasons, she said, she did not plan to make it a habit.
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Kimete Murrizi, an Albanian immigrant, picks grapes in Chiusi, Italy, for a winery.

A Muslim, she does not drink.



Amid turmoil over immigrants in Italy, Albanians from places like Durres and Kavaje have found ways
to integrate in communities in Tuscany.



In the Italian popular imagination, Albanian immigrants are more often depicted as scofflaws than as upstanding members of society. Anti-immigrant sentiment runs high, and many Italians blame foreigners for what they say is a rise in crime. In recent months, there have been several highly publicized cases of violence against other immigrant groups.

But amid the turmoil, families like the Murrizis are quietly integrating into middle-class life in ways that Italy is only beginning to acknowledge. Like new shoots grafted onto an old vine, they are fast becoming an essential part of the country’s most valued traditions, including winemaking.

The Murrizis work full time for the Salcheto winery, based in nearby Montepulciano, planting in spring, pruning in summer, picking in fall and preparing the vines in winter.

They are the new face of Italy, and Italy is slowly recognizing them.

“At first we didn’t realize they have different needs,” said Salcheto’s owner, Michele Manelli, 33, who has gone out of his way to help the Murrizis navigate the Italian bureaucracy. “When we’d have dinner at the end of the harvest, we’d have a normal menu. But little by little we understood: no pig, no wild boar.”

The night before, the Murrizis had gathered with friends and family to mark the end of Ramadan, which they celebrated in a public apartment near the Montepulciano fire station, eating homemade baklava and drinking Turkish coffee.

“In Albania we would have had a bigger party,” Mr. Murrizi said that evening. “But here, we have to work; it’s the ‘vendemmia,’ ” or grape harvest.

Their host was Azem Mema, a contractor originally from Kavaje, Albania, who shares the apartment with his wife, Arta; their school-age daughters, Francesca and Alessia; and his mother, Kadife, a stocky woman with a white kerchief on her head and a dark shawl draped over her shoulders.

“I have eight children,” the elder Mrs. Mema said proudly in rudimentary Italian. “Five boys and three girls.” Seven live in or near Montepulciano, she said, and one daughter is still in Albania.

“Sooner or later she’ll come here, too,” Mr. Murrizi said.

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Every so often the buzzer rang and another branch of the family arrived. Mr. Mema’s sister, Lindita Hoxha, also a vineyard worker, came in with her bubbly 11-year-old son, Matteo. He said he liked studying history. “We’ve done the Romans, the Egyptians, the golden age of Africa,” he said. But not Napoleon. “You don’t get to him until the second year of middle school.”

Several years ago, the Murrizis bought a house in Sinalunga, a nearby town. Their three grown children all work nearby: one is an electrician, one is a blacksmith and the third has a career in the hotel industry. Legal residents, the couple have applied for Italian citizenship and expect to hear back soon.

“At first we thought we’d return” to Albania, Mrs. Murrizi said with a quiet smile. But that seems increasingly unlikely.

Mr. Mema said, “The older the kids get, the harder it becomes.” At Francesca’s middle school, the other children do not know she speaks Albanian at home, he added.

Arta Mema, hugging Alessia, her younger daughter, said: “They’re used to it here. They were born here and have grown up here.”

In Montepulciano, integration is still a work in progress, said the city’s mayor, Massimo Della Giovampaola. “As with all new things, there’s some diffidence,” he conceded. “But it’s a matter of time. The kids in school now, when they get older they’ll be totally integrated because they grew up together.” 
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                                    Wine ingredient protects against radiation: report






Tue Sep 23, 2008
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A natural antioxidant commonly found in red wine and fruit may protect against radiation exposure, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

Tests in mice showed that resveratrol, when altered using a compound called acetyl, could prevent some of the damage caused by radiation, the researchers told the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology meeting in Boston.

Drugs made that way might be used in a large-scale radiological or nuclear emergency, said Dr. Joel Greenberger, a radiation oncologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

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"Small molecules which can be easily stored, transported and administered are optimal for this, and so far acetylated resveratrol fits these requirements well."

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