Nutrition and Diet Tips

The benefits of wine were described by Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, who said that “wine is something admirably suited to man, both in health and in sickness, if you are given timely and proper measure, according to individual constitution.

Take a little wine is healthy, the wine is an alcoholic beverage to which is attributed anticancer and antioxidant properties thanks to certain substances it contains.

In scientific terms the wine has certain components which act on plasma lipids (mainly cholesterol, HDL), platelets or blood clotting in cardiovascular protection.

Today we know that the tannins in red wines – when practiced moderate consumption-cleaner helps keep our arteries, helping to prevent cardiovascular disease. Recent studies have also shown that resveratrol, a substance found in the skin of red grapes, may help slow aging and prevent aging diseases like Alzheimer’s.

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A team of scientists from the Institute of Food Research, USA, found that-until now-had underestimated the content and concentration of polyphenolic molecules in fruits. This compound is an effective antioxidant and this is another reason to increase the daily intake of fresh fruit.

Usually happens that the experts made the content analysis based on polyphenols “removable” but a Spanish scientific discussed in detail the chemical composition of apple, pear and tangerine and discovered that there orta class of polyphenols called “non – Removable, which outweigh the “removable” by up to 5 times. The study was published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

“This family of polyphenols must be extracted from cell walls using a variety of fruit acids,” said Dr. Sara Arranz Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Madrid. He added: “If these compounds are not considered non-extractable is underestimating the true amount of material” healthy “–

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