The color or red wine looks like a very rich and deep red and just as the best of things has its positives and negatives, so also it is with red wine. So here are a list of advantages and disadvantages of red wine.

Advantages of drinking red wine:

1. Red wine reduces the risk of coronary heart disease by altering the blood lipid levels and lowering the total cholesterol. It also raises the HDL level and the polyphenols in red wine are known to have antioxidant properties that scavenge and combat free radicals thus reducing the number to oxidized lipids.

The health benefits of white wine come only from only moderate drinking. Too much consumption is associated with weight gain and migraine. Moderate drinking for a man would be about 2 glasses a day, where each glass would have a 5 ounces serving of white wine.Moderate drinking for a woman would be just one glass a day. Some of the health benefits of drinking white wine are mentioned below.

Preventing heart disease: White wine helps build the good cholesterol called HDL in the body. The resulting control on cholesterol in the body helps prevent heart disease.