I Will Live to be 100!

 

Well, that's what I keep telling Frank!  Two glasses of red wine per day can add a decade to your life! Could this be our fountain of youth? Does red wine protect against heart disease? Certainly. Studies on the benefits of red wine suggested that moderate amount of red wine lowers the risk of heart attack for people in middle age by 30 to 50 percent. I'll take those odds any day! It is also suggested that red wine may prevent additional heart attacks if you have already suffered from one. Other studies also indicated that red wine can raise HDL cholesterol (Good Cholesterol) and prevent LDL cholesterol (Bad Cholesterol) from forming. Red wine may help prevent blood clots and reduce the blood vessel damage caused by fat deposits.

 

Recently, researchers have found that moderate red wine consumption may be beneficial to more than just your heart. One study found that the antioxidant resveratrol, which is prevalent in the skin of red grapes, may inhibit tumor development in some cancers. Another study indicated that resveratrol aided in the formation of nerve cells, which experts believe may be helpful in the treatment of neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

 

More health benefits:

 

Staying Trim! 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.

 

Helping your Head: Wine could preserve your memory. When researchers gave memory quizzes to women in their 70s, those who drank one drink or more every day scored much better than those who drank less or not at all. Wine helps prevent clots and reduce blood vessel inflammation, both of which have been linked to cognitive decline and heart disease.

 

Build better bones
On average, women who drink moderately seem to have higher bone mass than abstainers. Alcohol appears to boost estrogen levels; the hormone seems to slow the body’s destruction of old bone more than it slows the production of new bone.

 

Cheers! Lets down a glass or two of red, stay slim, remember our names in our old age and live to be 100!