Moderate Red Wine Drinking May Help Prevent Cataract

Tokyo (JCNN) - Leading Japanese beverage manufacturer Suntory has announced that it has confirmed a preventive effect of
moderate wine drinking against cataract in collaboration with Kanazawa Medical University and the University of Iceland.



As part of Reykjavik Eye Study, an international research project co-organized by Kanazawa Medical University, the National
Institute of Environmental Studies and the University of Iceland inaugurated in 1996, the joint research group has revealed
that moderate red wine drinking successfully reduces the development of cataract by half.


Entitled CATARACT AND ALCOHOL - Reykjavik Eye Study, detailed research results were jointly presented at the 12th Congress of
International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism held in Germany from September 29 to October 2.


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