Red wine is good for your heart
After realizing my first food chart, I’ve decided to write something more about the most important foods of the Mediterranean diet and their effects on health. Wine is one of the main foods of the Mediterranean diet. Everybody know its effects and benefits on health. Today I’ve read an interesting news about the healthy effects of red wine reducing heart diseases.
After a little explanation of why red wine helps your heart, you can read a list of resources about preventing heart diseases with examples of recipes, meals and links to find out more info.
Positive effects of red wine to reduce heart disorders
Some french researches found that polyphenols play a beneficial role for those with diseased hearts and circulatory systems by facilitating blood vessel growth. The quantity of polyphenols necessary to obtain these effects are the equivalent of 1 glass of wine a day. Polyphenols are found in the skin and around the pips of red grapes. White wine, however, contains no polyphenols.
Not every red wine has the same amount of polyphenols, it depends on what type of grape it is made of. Only red wines using Tannat (A red wine grape grown in southern France) or Malbec (A black grape variety grown in the Loire Valley and Cahors in France) grapes usually contain the biggest doses. The wine with the highest polyphenol levels is Madiran, a wine prodiced in the Hautes-Pyrénées in France. Other to polyphenols, red wine contains Flavonoids, other useful elements that may reduce some of the early signs of heart disease.
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You are great!
It’s interesting to see that only certain wines from France have polyphenols. I wonder if there isn’t any bias from those French scientists? Wine is also a major part of the Italian diet. Rocco DiSpirito mentions this on his recent webisodes for Bertolli Mediterranean Style Frozen Dinners. You can watch him give cooking tips here. Eating healthy is an important part of having a healthy lifestyle and not having time to cook is no excuse! I have the inside scoop because I work with them.
Yes I agree. I already know the brand Bertolli. I think It’s an Olive oil from Tuscany. I use it in my salads.
Thanks for sharing your link.
If you like you can send me some recipes…I’ll be happy to pubblish them in this blog.
Enrico
As usual, good, intresting and really useful post for all readers and specially for me, thanks!
Good luck to you!
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Really good and really interesting post. I expect (and other readers maybe :)) new useful posts from you!
Good luck and successes in blogging!
hi thanxs for good information
which brand of red wine (name) do you recommend for healthier life please
Charles,
I recommend you “Chianti” “Nero D’Avola” and “Barolo”
I hope this post helping people in case struggling with the effect of drink wine for their body. Keep writing useful information.
i just wanted to know the name of a good
red wine for my i am 78 and have two heart attack
i can not affort any thing to expenice
thank you so much. if you had and extra maybe
you could share with me .i sure would thank you
betty