CHEM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Red Wine Headache, Phylloxera, Vitamin B3 Complex

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 110
• Professor: Joe Schwarcz

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Beer is the most popular alcohol beverage in the world. The consumption of wine is going up for all around the world, except for france. o. Liters per capita (2011: vatican 62. 2, luxembourg 49. 1, france 45. 6. Province in canada where most wine is drunk: yukon. On the canary island, when a child comes of age, he"s immersed in wine and wine is sprinkled over his or her body to provide good health. o. 142ml (5oz) of wine has 125 calories, most of them coming from alcohol. Contains vitamin b3 (niacin), pantothenic acid and pyridoxine in extremely small amounts. To fulfill the daily requirement of niacin just by drinking wine, we would have to drink 10 bottles in one day! o. French paradox: french people have bad eating habits and high cholesterol levels, but they have the lowest incidence of heart disease among all the industrialized countries except japan. o.