“Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food”HippocratesSince the beginning of the 1990s, various reports began toemerge that resveratrol, a compound present in red wine, mightcontribute in part to the “French paradox”, a phenomenon thatrefers to the relative low rate of cardiovascular disease (CVD) inFrance despite high intake of dietary saturated fat (Renaud andde Lorgeril, 1992).