Drink up, for your health...SERIOUSLY!
According to new research performed by British scientists, red wines from Italy and (ugh) France may be much more beneficial to your health than wine from any other region.
These scientists, after careful research, have found that the wine coming from the Italian region of Nuoro province in Sardinia and French foothills of the Pyrenees, contain around 10 times more of the healthy antioxidant called procyanadins , which protects the condition of a persons blood vessels.
The research team was led by Professor Roger Corder of Queen Mary, Univerisity of London and Professor Alan Crozier of the University of Glasgow. Both Corder and Crozier found that the wines from these Italian and French regions substantially beat out all other wines from Australia, South Africa and the United States with the amount of procyanidins found in the Italian and French wine.
Moreover, these regions were then tested to see if indeed they people generally had a longer life expectancy and in fact, they did.
The reason these two regions produce more procyanidins in their wine comes from the fermentation process. First, in order to produce a substantial amount of procyanidins within a wine, fermentation must be done with the grape seeds and skins in tact for around three to four weeks. However, newer fermentation procedures are done with the seeds and skins usually for no longer than one week, therefore leaving out a good amount of procyanidins in their final product.
Therefore in reality, those people who think that having a drink is a horrendous health mistake might want to reconsider, since procyanidins, which is found in all wines, counteracts endothelin-1, a protein that constricts blood vessels and causes heart disease. Consequently, numerous studies show that the moderate drinkers are much less likely to suffer from heart disease than those who “don’t touch the stuff.”
Therefore, drink up… SALUTE! (FYI: it means “to your health” in Italian,)
Check out the full article:
The Timesonline
By: Mark Henderson, Science Editor of The Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2478251_1,00.html
These scientists, after careful research, have found that the wine coming from the Italian region of Nuoro province in Sardinia and French foothills of the Pyrenees, contain around 10 times more of the healthy antioxidant called procyanadins , which protects the condition of a persons blood vessels.
The research team was led by Professor Roger Corder of Queen Mary, Univerisity of London and Professor Alan Crozier of the University of Glasgow. Both Corder and Crozier found that the wines from these Italian and French regions substantially beat out all other wines from Australia, South Africa and the United States with the amount of procyanidins found in the Italian and French wine.
Moreover, these regions were then tested to see if indeed they people generally had a longer life expectancy and in fact, they did.
The reason these two regions produce more procyanidins in their wine comes from the fermentation process. First, in order to produce a substantial amount of procyanidins within a wine, fermentation must be done with the grape seeds and skins in tact for around three to four weeks. However, newer fermentation procedures are done with the seeds and skins usually for no longer than one week, therefore leaving out a good amount of procyanidins in their final product.
Therefore in reality, those people who think that having a drink is a horrendous health mistake might want to reconsider, since procyanidins, which is found in all wines, counteracts endothelin-1, a protein that constricts blood vessels and causes heart disease. Consequently, numerous studies show that the moderate drinkers are much less likely to suffer from heart disease than those who “don’t touch the stuff.”
Therefore, drink up… SALUTE! (FYI: it means “to your health” in Italian,)
Check out the full article:
The Timesonline
By: Mark Henderson, Science Editor of The Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2478251_1,00.html
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