Wine for Your Health
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.
