There are three qualities to make a great meal and food is only one of them.
A tasty dish goes without saying, but let us not forget the importance of good company and a pleasant wine. Some scientific research indicates that wine is not only a key to a good meal, but is also good for us.
This means that the next time we sit down to eat with a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, we both improvement of our health and our well being?
The idea that wine is good for our health has existed for some time, but found scientific basis in the 1990s. Sunday, 17 November 1991, the French medical scientist from Bordeaux University, Serge Renaud, announced on the popular ABC television news program, 60 minutes, as his compatriots love to drink wine accounted for their low rate of deaths from heart disease. In the subsequent four weeks shot wine sales in the United States by 44%. The wine was now a health tonic.
The health benefits of wine is a bit more complex than Dr. Renaud originally drawn up. Firstly, it is important to remember that alcohol can have some very serious negative effects on health and society. When consumed in excess, wine and other alcoholic drinks, can weaken the immune system, increase the risk of certain cancers and damage the liver and brain. Wine (especially red wine), however, is believed to have beneficial properties.
Serge Renaud's original research pointed out that coronary heart disease usually associated with a high intake of saturated fats in most countries. The situation appears to have reversed in France where deaths from heart disease is much lower than many similarly advanced countries like the United Kingdom, despite the French eat lots of cheese, pate ' and bread pudding. Dr. Reynaud called this peculiar situation the French Paradox. His initial research indicated the alcohol, who worked on the bloodshed haemostatic mechanism so that wine kept the blood circulates properly.
Since Renauds landmark piece of research, there has been a tremendous amount of research into health benefits of wine. Sometimes it can feel like a new study is released every few weeks, alternately says wine or alcohol is a life-giving patent solution or a highly dangerous substance. The truth is probably somewhere in the Middle-wine drunk in moderation can be part of a healthy diet. So we need not feel guilty about picking up a delicious, fruity bottle of Merlot next time we go to Marks and Spencer. But what is it about wine, contributing to its health giving properties?
Health benefits of wine meant largely to be landscape in antioxidants. Today, we all seem to be antioxidant gale. Their services are being highlighted in magazines, television and food packaging, but what are these mysterious little fellas? Very short, antioxidants are substances that protect our cells from the effects of free radicals. Free radicals have nothing to do with anarchism, but are molecules that are harmful to our bodies. Antioxidants are found in fresh fruit and vegetables and some meat and fish. Foods with higher than normal concentrations of antioxidants is known as ' super food '. Synthesis, antioxidants are good for you, and can be found in wine.
Antioxidants found in wine originally come from they are made from grapes. Type of antioxidants in grapes and wines are polyphenol antioxidants found in green tea and cacao among other things. The most important of the antioxidants found in wines is resveratrol which is concentrated in the skins of the grape must. This means that red wine, which gets its color and taste from the grape musts skins, have more resveratrol than white wine. So, red wine is believed to be especially health offers.
One of the most important benefits of antioxidants found in wines is their cancer preventing properties. A study published in The International Journal of Cancer in 2004 found that drinking a glass or two of red wine a day maybe half the rate of prostate cancer. This may well have something to do with the resveratrol in wine, as a recent study suggests. In 2008 found researchers at Rochester University Medical Center, the pancreatic lymph nodes cancer cells were killed after being pre-treated with both resveratrol and irradiation.
Return to cardiovascular diseases (CVD), Serge Renaud colleague Dr. Michel de Lorgeril, found in a study published in 2002, moderate red wine drinking reduces the risk of another heart attack. This may well be linked to the existence of a group of chemicals in red wine known as 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 discovered by Andrew Waterhouse, Professor of Enology (wines chemistry) at the University of California, Davis, also found that the quantity of the chemical varied between grapes. Among the red wines tested by the team at Davis, Red Zinfandel was found to contain the highest levels of saporins, the second highest Syrah. Then Pinot noir and Cabernet Sauvignon, which each had about the same amount. White wine had far less saporin.
Despite these seemingly beneficial chemicals in red wine, has been raised questions with the French Paradox. The French lifestyle health has been asked (they are not the really healthy and coronary disease are under-reported or will increase as they are eating more truly unhealthy food, especially containing transfats)-and has been mindful of other factors which may take into account the health of French (they currently eat less transfats and get more sunlight, which increases the vitamin d and is good for the arteries).
As with all science, there is some difference of opinion, but there seems to be good reason to believe that drinking red wine in moderation is good for you and your well-being. There's nothing quite like sitting around laughing with friends over a good dinner and a glass of good wine. It is so good for the soul.
This is good for the wine lovers among us, so let's toast to the good news. Just make sure that it is only a single glass (or two special occasions), but then again there are away second glass is looking forward to tomorrow.
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