Yang Wei

Deputy Chief Physician, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Seventh People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

When it comes to red wine, it is easy to think of "luminous glass wine", which gives people a beautiful daydream.

Red wine has become a must-have for thousands of women before going to bed. So, is red wine really that beautiful?

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Everyone thinks that drinking red wine can beautify and resist aging, probably because of its antioxidant capacity.

In fact, the content of antioxidants in red wine is very small, and when alcohol exists, antioxidants decrease rapidly.

At the same time, alcohol will dilate blood vessels, accelerate the loss of collagen and skin moisture, cause skin aging, dryness and water shortage, and completely offset the beauty beauty effect brought by a very small amount of antioxidants in red wine.

For health and beauty, eating some fresh grapes is better than drinking wine.

Grape is a kind of nutritious fruit;

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Some in vitro and animal experiments have found that resveratrol, an antioxidant in red wine, may help protect the inner wall of blood vessels. Whether it has the same effect on human body or not, the content of resveratrol in red wine is very small. If it is to achieve the effect of prevention and health care, it may take hundreds or even thousands of bottles a day.

At the same time, excessive drinking will increase the risk of hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia and obesity, which are all risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.

Antioxidant substances in red wine can also be obtained from other foods, such as

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The occurrence of breast cancer is related to high estrogen. In fact, American researchers have extracted resveratrol and other chemicals that can resist estrogen from grape seeds and grape skins.

But don't forget that alcohol is a catalyst for cancer.

The World Cancer Research Foundation and the American Institute for Cancer Research (WCRF/AICR) analyzed 9 related studies on 1 19, involving120,000 women and 260,000 cases of breast cancer. It is believed that drinking a glass of wine every day (containing alcohol10g) will increase the risk of breast cancer by 5% before menopause and 9% after menopause.

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People think that red wine is a fermented wine brewed with natural raw materials, which is not high in degree and contains vitamins, amino acids, minerals, sugar, protein and other nutrients that the human body must supplement and absorb, so it is healthier than distilled high-alcohol wine.

However, no matter how low the degree of red wine is, it contains alcohol, which will cause damage to many organs including liver, intestine and brain, especially the liver.

In 20 18, The Lancet magazine comprehensively analyzed and estimated the alcohol intake of 195 countries and regions, and evaluated the impact of alcohol intake on human health. The analysis results show that drinking alcohol seriously damages health and brings high risk of illness.

At the same time, China people are born with genetic defects in alcohol metabolism, carrying mutant acetaldehyde dehydrogenase gene, which can not effectively degrade acetaldehyde, a metabolite of alcohol in the body. Alcohol and acetaldehyde are clearly identified as 1 carcinogens by the World Health Organization.

So people with genetic defects in China are more likely to drink alcohol.

Therefore, no matter what kind of wine, as long as it contains alcohol, it is harmful to health.

If it is a special day, it is ok to have a drink, but never as a daily drink, let alone hope for its "health care" effect.

| First article: Journal of Family Medicine