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Wine As A Circumstantial Drink
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Drinking a glass of red wine daily can decrease your risk of
heart disease, significantly. HOW? One reason is the alcohol
itself, which helps reduce artery-aging blood clots. Another reason
is the flavanoids found in wine, powerful antioxidants that can
help prevent aging, too.
DON'T WANT THE ALCOHOL? What should you do if you want the heart
healthy benefits of wine, but none of the alcohol? Drink purple
grape juice. Like red wine, purple grape juice contains quercetin,
a flavanoid antioxidant that appears to reduce blood clotting, a
major contributor to heart attacks and strokes.
WHAT ABOUT EATING GRAPES? Unfortunately, table grapes don't
appear to have as many flavanoids as those found in the grapes used
for making juice and wine.
Great New
Health News:
New results from the government-funded National
Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I have confirmed that the
risk for coronary heart disease... Read
on...
Merlot to Go
Today is merlot blowout day. The categories are Cheap ($12 and
under), Moderate (up to $19), Expensive ($19-$35) and Really
Expensive (way up there). Within the sections, the progress is more
or less from Avoid to Exceptional. Read
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Que Será- Syrah?
Syrah, also known as “Shiraz,” which is also the
name of the capital of Persia in medieval times, is displacing
other reds as the grape of choice for blending, as it brings color,
fuller body and dense, complex structure to a blend. Read on...
NEWEST RESEARCH: WINE, BIG BENEFIT IN
WEIGHT & WAIST REDUCTION!!
The News Could Hardly Be Better for Wine Drinkers!!
Now, in addition to wine's many other health benefits, a very
large, definitive study, designed to identify behaviors associated
with weight gain, has clearly and certainly shown that
alcohol consumption was not associated with gains in body mass
index (BMI) for men or women, and wine was the only beverage not
associated with increased waist gain for women. The
findings were part of an American Cancer Society study of 79,236
healthy adults who answered questions about diet and activities in
1982 and again in 1992. The study also found BMI to increase with
meat consumption and decrease with vegetable consumption, vitamin E
supplementation and vigorous exercise.
Over the ten year period, regular drinkers of wine, beer and
spirits had either no significant change or a slight decrease in
BMI, perhaps the most common measurement of body weight. Regular
consumption (5 or more days/week) by women of any beverage resulted
in a decrease in BMI. Regarding "weight gain at the waist,"
researchers found that men who drank any alcohol beverage regularly
had a slight decrease. Among women occasional drinkers (0
to 5 days/week), however, only wine consumers did not have an
increased likelihood of gain at the waist. "Our sex-specific
findings regarding the anatomic site of gain may help explain why
women’s beer or liquor consumption might have a lesser cardio
protective effect than women’s wine consumption," explain
Henry S. Kahn, M.D., and colleagues in the American Journal of
Public Health. "Reduced abdominal obesity," they conclude, "could
result in a lower incidence of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and
certain cancers."
This study confirms the results of a recent Colorado State
University study, which found the addition of two glasses
of red wine with dinner for men "does not influence any measured
variable which may adversely affect body weight or promote the
development of obesity."
References: Kahn HS, et al. Stable behaviors
associated with adults’ 10-year change in body mass index and
likelihood of gain at the waist. American Journal of Public Health,
1997; 87(5):747-754. Cordain L, et al. Influence of moderate daily
wine consumption upon body weight regulation and metabolism in
healthy free-living males. Journal of the American College of
Nutrition, 1997; 16(2).
For more of the latest research on Health Benefits of
Wine, go to our
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