The eight health benefits of wine
As much as we love wine, I’m not sure that the human body is capable of painlessly absorbing more than 1-2 servings of wine a day with almost no snacks for 7 or 10 consecutive days.
But there is good news for wine lovers, and it is this – wine has health benefits if consumed in reasonable doses (two glasses of wine a day for men, one for women):
- Moderate doses of alcohol can increase high-density lipoproteins, in other words “good cholesterol,” which reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, and helps thin the blood.
- Moderate consumption of alcoholic beverages reduces the formation of so-called “bad cholesterol,” low-density lipoproteins (according to research from the Yale-New Haven Clinic).
- Resveratol, an ingredient found in wine, acts as an antioxidant and prevents blood clotting, strengthens the cardiovascular system and reduces the risk of coronary heart disease.
- Studies have shown that people who drink wine in moderate doses have lower body weight because alcohol helps burn calories faster: up to 90 minutes after drinking a glass of wine or beer (according to the health committee).
- Australian researchers found that one glass of wine a day can reduce the risk of ovarian cancer by 50 percent (according to the state health committee).
- Women who drink alcoholic beverages in moderation have higher bone density than those who do not drink at all, because wine promotes estrogen levels, which slow the process of age-related bone breakdown (state health committee).
- A study of the health of women aged 70 to 81 showed that moderate drinkers were 23% less likely to develop senile dementia than teetotalers (according to the National Bureau of Statistics).
- Moderate red wine consumption contributes to a lower risk of death, which means that such people are less likely to be fatal in any circumstance at a certain age (according to the State Health Committee Daily Journal).
