Your Heart and Red Wine
The wine, which colors our tables, has always exerted a strong influence on human culture. By the Egyptians to the Greeks, from Etruria to the Roman Empire, until the conquest of the New World.
But what's the wine that makes it so uniquely valuable and irreplaceable?
The wine, when taken with thrift and good sense, has remarkable healing abilities on the heart and blood circulation, because it reduces the risk of ischemic heart disease and forms, active chronic degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, enhances memory, slows the aging process and, last but not least, acting on tumors with an antioxidant.
You should pay attention to the concept expressed earlier about the thrift and good sense. The abuse of wine, in fact, because of its high alcohol content, determines harmful nutritional imbalance and complications of the liver, pancreas, cardiovascular system, stomach, nervous system and increases the risk of incidence of cancer.
But what's inside the wine?
Approximately 80-90% of the wine we drink is water, origin of life.
The toxicity of the wine derives from its alcohol content of about 10%, while calcium, iron, sodium, potassium, phosphorus and vitamins are present in microscopic amounts.
If the fermentation is complete, you can find small amounts of sugar in the wine.
The wine is rich in a large variety of organic acids, which determine the degree of acidity, such as
tartatic acid, malic acid, citric acid, succinic acid, lactic acid.
The color, flavor and stability are determined by phenolic substances present in grape skins, or are transferred from the barrel to the wine during aging.
The action of polyphenols determines the curative effect of red wine in particular.
The polyphenols have strong antioxidant, antiplatelet, anti inflammatory, antiallergic, anticancer, regularize lipid metabolism.
Drinking small amounts of red wine, the French heavy smokers and consumers of saturated fat of animal origin, have a low incidence of mortality from cardiovascular disease, this phenomenon is also known as the French paradox: wine, smoke and grease.
Flavonoids, such as
alpha-tocopherol
or trans-resveratrol
, contained mostly in red wine, in fact, have strong antioxidant properties, thus decreasing plasma cholesterol.
The wine polyphenols, such as
quercetin
, myricetin kaemferolo
and, in addition to combating the formation of free radicals responsible for the degenerative processes, also act as inhibitors of certain carcinogenic chemicals.
Red wine or White wine, which one is better?
In relation to the fermentation method used, the amount of red wine contains more phenolic compounds (about 0.4 to 4 g/l) than in white wine and this gives it greater capacity beneficial.
It 's true the saying:
If you want to do good way fresh water and a little wine?
Surely to get a maximum return from our brain, we must be very careful about the amount of wine we drink.
The wine is immediately absorbed by the mucosa of the stomach, which can be irritating and inflammatory processes where the recruitment is done repeatedly and fast.
The absorption rate of the wine does come early in the brain and inhibits its alcohol content, so the activity of the nervous system.
The presence of alkaloids, also leads to addiction and dependence on this drink.
But how do we know how much wine you can drink?
Common sense certainly helps us to tell when it's time to stop drinking.
Each gram of alcohol provides about 7 calories, engaging our liver in the metabolism for about ten minutes.
The daily quantity of alcohol that you can take is about from 0.6 to 0.7 g per kg of body weight, so the adult man can take about 450 ml (3 glasses of wine) per day, while the adult woman 350 ml (2 glasses of wine) to be divided between lunch and dinner.
The only advice I can give is just to
...Eat healthy and drink like a sick ...