Researches have long suspected the health benefits of drinking wine. In fact, Hippocrates recommended certain types of wine to purge fever, and serve as dietary supplements, as early as 450 B.C.
While we've learned in more recent centuries that wine isn't the best "go-to" when you're fever-stricken, we've also learned that the illustrious juice can help our heart, at the very least. This post is dedicated to the positive effects of wine drinking. Woop, woop!
- Longer Lives! A Finnish study found that wine drinkers have a 34 percent lower mortality rate than beer or spirit drinkers.
- WINE is the key component in what nutritionists call the french paradox, or the overall cardiovascular health enjoyed by a nation (France) that consumes more wine, cheese, and fatty foods than we do. Why? Researches have found that moderate amounts of wine drinking actually "flushes out'' arteries, and decreases risk of heart disease (see below).
- Reduces risk of heart attack (Harvard School of Public Health), heart disease, and type 2 Diabetes.
- Slows brain decline: a 2006 Columbia University study revealed that "brain decline occurs markedly faster rate in nondrinkers than moderate drinkers."
- Lose Weight! Alright, I'm a bit skeptical too. But according to www.health.com, "studies find that people who drink wine daily have lower body mass than those who indulge occasionally; moderate wine drinkers have narrower waists and less abdominal fat than people who drink liquor. Alcohol may encourage your body to burn extra calories for as long as 90 minutes after you down a glass." Yeah. I believe. Why not?
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