There are three qualities to make a good meal and food is only one of them.
A tasty dish goes without saying, but let's not forget the importance of good company and a pleasant wine. Some research scientific indicate that wine is not only a key to a good meal, but is also good for us.
This means that the next time that sit down to eat with a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, we all both improve our health and our well-being?
The idea that wine is good for our health has been around for some time, but find a scientific basis in the 1990s. It was on Sunday, November 17, 1991 that the medical researcher French from the University of Bordeaux, Serge Renaud, announced on the new TV program popular American, 60 Minutes, the penchant of his countrymen for drinking wine are responsible for their low rate of heart disease deaths. In the four following weeks sales of wine in America shot 44%. Wine was now a health tonic.
Wine health benefits are a little more complex than Dr. Renaud initially established. First of all, it is important to remember that alcohol can have some very serious adverse effects to health and society. When consumed in excess, wine, as any other alcoholic beverage, can weaken the immune system, increase the risk of some cancers and damage the liver and brain. However, it is believed that wine (specifically red wine) have beneficial properties.
Original research of Serge Renaud noted that coronary heart disease is usually connected to a high consumption of fat-saturated in most countries. The situation appears to be reversed in France where deaths from heart disease are much lower that many countries of same advances, such as the United Kingdom, despite the French eat lots of cheese, pate' and pudding. Dr. Reynaud called this particular situation, the "French paradox". His original research indicated that alcohol has worked on the hemostatic mechanism of blood, this wine preserved blood circulates properly.
Since a piece of landmark research Renaud, there is an enormous amount of research on the benefits to the health of the wine. Sometimes it can feel like a new study out all a few weeks, saying Alternatively wine or alcohol is an invigorating panacea or a hazardous substance deeply. The truth is probably somewhere in the Middle - drunk wine in moderation can be part of a healthy diet. If we do certainly have to feel guilty to pick up a delicious, fruity Merlot bottle next time, we are going to Marks and Spencer. But what is on wine contributes to its health giving properties?
The benefits for the health of the wine would largely be extended in antioxidants. Today we all seem to be antioxidant mad. Their benefits are currently leased in magazines, television and food packaging, but what are these mysterious fellas? Very briefly, antioxidants are substances that protect our cells against the effects of free radicals. Free radicals have nothing to do with anarchism, but are molecules which are harmful to our bodies. Antioxidants are found in the fruit and vegetables, and some meat and fish. Food with more higher that normal levels of antioxidants are known as "super foods". In summary, the antioxidants are good for you and they are located in the wine.
The antioxidants found in wine originally come from grapes, they are made from. The type of antioxidants in grapes and the wine are antioxidant polyphenols, which are also present in green tea and cocoa, among other things. The most important antioxidants in wine is Resveratrol, which is concentrated in the skins of grapes. This means that red wine, which gets its colour and flavour of the skins of grapes, has more than white wine resveratrol. Thus, the red wine is considered particularly giving health.
Their cancer preventing properties is one of the most important benefits of antioxidants found in wines. A study published in The International Journal of Cancer in 2004 revealed that drinking a glass or two of red wine that one day perhaps half the rate of prostate cancer. This might have something to do with the resveratrol in wine, as a more recent study suggests. In 2008, researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center found that pancreatic cancer cells were killed after having been pretreated with resveratrol and irradiation.
Return to cardiovascular diseases (CVD), colleague of the Serge Renaud Dr. Michel de Lorgeril found in a study published in 2002 that moderate wine drinking reduces the risk of a second heart attack. This may well be linked to the existence of a group of chemical substances in red wine called saponins. Found in the skins of grapes and olive oil and soybean saponins block the absorption of cholesterol.
The existence of saporins in red wine was found by Andrew Waterhouse, Professor of Oenology (wine chemistry) at the University of California, Davis, which also found that the amount of chemical product varies from grapes. Among Red wines, tested by the team of Davis, Red Zinfandel proved that contain the highest levels of saporins, Syrah the second highest. And then of Pinot noir and Cabernet Sauvignon, which had about the same amount. White wines were much less saporin.
Despite these seemingly beneficial in red wine products, questions were raised with the French Paradox. French life safety has been questioned (they are not healthy that really, and coronary artery disease has been underreported or increase because they eat more truly unhealthy food, including trans fat)- and the attention was drawn to other factors that might explain the good health of the French (they currently eat less trans fat and get more sunlight which increases the vitamin d and is good for the arteries).
Like all sciences, there is a difference of opinion, however, it seems to be good reasons to believe that it is good for you and your well-being of drinking red wine in moderation. There is nothing quite like sitting around laughing with his friends on a good dinner and a glass of good wine. It's so good for the soul.
It's good for lovers of wine with us, so let's toast the good news. Make sure only it is only a single glass (or two for special occasions), but there is the gift of other glass to look forward to tomorrow.
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