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Good news for all you folks who love red wines.

A new study says that drinking moderate amounts of red wine reduce your chances of a stroke.

Red wine might work to protect the brain from damage after a stroke and drinking a couple of glasses a day might provide that protection ahead of time, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.

In an effort to better understand how red wine works, the scientists from Johns Hopkins University fed mice a moderate dose of a compound found in red grape skins and seeds before inducing stroke-like damage.

They discovered that the animals suffered less brain damage than similarly damaged mice who were not treated with the compound, which is called resveratrol.

In vino veritas!

This follows similar studies and observations that moderate wine consumption appears to improve cardiovascular function. Apparently, resveratrol has an estrogenic effect, which may also lead to improved breast cancer and menopause treatments.