Red wine was selected as one of the top ten healthy foods by Time magazine. According to the survey, people living in wine-rich areas have more opportunities to drink wine, so their average life expectancy can reach over 90 years old. Red wine has a significant preventive effect on heart disease, and the effect is even as good as that prescribed by doctors. A cup of delicious red wine, just like ginseng, has the functions of invigorating qi, consolidating the constitution, strengthening the body, benefiting the loss, quenching thirst and calming the nerves. French court ladies in the past and movie stars now often drink aged red wine to maintain their skin, making it more shiny, delicate and elastic. It is better to drink alcohol in moderation when eating, and it is better to drink alcohol in moderation every day, which is more conducive to your health. As we all know, westerners like to eat high-calorie and high-fat foods, and these greasy foods are easy to cause arteriosclerosis and heart disease. But strangely, French people rarely suffer from heart disease, and even if they do, the number of deaths is much less than that of people in other countries. Why do French people who eat meat and enjoy romantic leisure have a lower risk of dying of heart disease than people in other European countries? This formed the "French paradox". Medical experts found that this is all because romantic French people like to drink red wine. French researchers recently pointed out that drinking a few glasses of wine can not only prevent the occurrence of heart disease, but also effectively alleviate the condition of patients with heart disease. According to research, middle-aged French people who have had a heart attack once are 50% less likely to have a second heart attack than those who don't drink. Scientists studied 353 men aged between 40 and 60 who had just had a heart attack. There is no big difference in their illness, drugs and food types, but the main difference is the consumption of alcohol. In the second year after the study, 104 of these men suffered from cardiovascular diseases, such as heart pain or cerebrovascular diseases. Among them, 36 people don't drink, 34 people drink less than 2 cups a day, 18 people drink 2 cups a day, and 16 people drink 4-5 cups a day. Red wine is no longer a simple drink, but a medicine that can cure diseases. British doctors include drinking in their treatment of patients. In 2002, red wine was among the 10 healthy foods published by Time magazine. The American government also allows the label of domestic red wine to read "moderate drinking is good for health". Experts from the American Heart Association say that a Mediterranean diet can reduce the risk of heart disease. In Greece, people who eat a Mediterranean diet are 33% less likely to suffer from heart disease than others. The Mediterranean diet mainly includes poultry, eggs and sugar, while vegetables, fruits, dried fruits, beans, unprocessed cereals, cheese, olive oil and fish are more necessary in daily life. In addition, people drink a small amount of red wine every meal. In new york, most obese people are likely to suffer from heart disease. Doctors at the CDC suggest that if you drink a certain amount of red wine every day, the risk will be much reduced. Drinking is like eating ginseng. We know that ginseng has a great nourishing effect, which can strengthen the body and then quench thirst and soothe the nerves. In fact, compared with ginseng, wine has the same magical effect. A French skin medical center often bathes patients with skin diseases with the extract of red wine. These extracts are red powder, and the alcohol component has been removed. The main component is polyphenol, which is beneficial to the skin and can resist aging. Red wine is carefully brewed by winemakers, and a substance called antioxidant free radicals will be produced during its fermentation. Because antioxidant free radicals can prevent the oxidation of body fat. Therefore, drinking more red wine can delay aging. The fermentation of red wine has gone through many processes. In the early stage of grape fermentation atrophy, a large number of powerful antioxidants such as polyphenols are produced, which plays a great role in preventing skin aging. In the village of Saint Emilion in Roussac, Bordeaux, the largest French wine producing area, the old people here often ride bicycles freely in the market like young people. Most of these old people are between 70 and 90, and they all look radiant. In Bordeaux, France, which is recognized as the largest wine producing area in the world, you often see people in their nineties working happily in vineyards. They are all full of energy and red faces. For the villagers here, red wine is indispensable for every meal. They always believe that red wine makes them healthy physically and mentally. Why do they think so? It turns out that our human body is like a metal placed in the air, which will gradually "oxidize" in nature. The culprit of human oxidation is not oxygen, but oxygen free radicals-an active gene with unpaired electrons outside the nucleus. This unpaired electron can easily cause chemical reactions and damage important biomolecules such as DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), protein, lipid, etc., and then affect the operation process of cell membrane, damage the functions of tissues and organs, and accelerate the aging of the body. Red wine contains a variety of antioxidants, such as phenols, flavonoids, vitamin C, vitamin E, trace elements selenium, zinc, manganese, etc., which can eliminate or fight oxygen free radicals, so it has anti-aging and disease prevention effects. In addition, the villagers in Bordeaux have always believed that drinking red wine in winter is just like eating ginseng, which can not only promote the whole body blood circulation, but also bring vitality and vitality to the body. Therefore, a cup of delicious red wine, like a precious ginseng, can not only keep you young, but also protect your body from various diseases. Atherosclerosis might as well drink some red wine. Professor Roger Goethe of London Medical University did an experiment about whether red wine can inhibit arteriosclerosis. The subjects of the experiment are three cows. Professor Goethe first cultured bovine intimal cells, and then injected them with red wine, white wine and grape juice respectively. After a period of observation, Professor Goethe found that the injection of red wine had the best inhibitory effect on arteriosclerosis. Why is red wine more beneficial to inhibit arteriosclerosis than the other two wines? It turned out that "polyphenols" in red wine played a great role. Polyphenols, also known as prostacyclin, have a positive effect on preventing arteriosclerosis. After drinking red wine, human blood vessels will contract, blood vessel walls will thicken, and endothelin, a harmful substance causing arteriosclerosis, will also be inhibited. In this process, red wine can effectively inhibit the occurrence of arteriosclerosis. Researchers at the Institute of Vascular Studies of Jiangyuan University in Korea have confirmed through experiments that red wine can increase high-density lipoprotein (HDL) in the blood. The role of HDL is to transport cholesterol from extrahepatic tissues to the liver for metabolism, so it can effectively reduce blood cholesterol and prevent atherosclerosis. Moreover, polyphenols in red wine can inhibit platelet aggregation and prevent thrombosis. You may ask: Does the white wine we usually eat have this effect? Although liquor also has anti-platelet aggregation effect, it will rebound after a few hours, making platelet aggregation more exciting than before drinking. Compared with white wine, red wine has no such rebound phenomenon, and it can continue to inhibit platelet aggregation after drinking 18 hours. There is a saying that red wine encounters toothache. "Toothache is not a disease, it is fatal." It can be seen that the trouble of dental diseases to people can not be described by simple pain. Moreover, with the passage of time, periodontal disease will affect the gums and the bones around the teeth, and if not treated in time, it will lead to tooth loss. So, have you tried using red wine to treat toothache? In March 2006, there was a report in Baojing, Beijing: Canadian scientists recently pointed out that red wine contains a compound that can effectively prevent periodontal disease and tooth loss. At the annual meeting of the American Dental Research Association in Florida, researchers from Laval University in Quebec, Canada, proposed that they extracted a compound called "polyphenol" from Bordeaux wine and studied its effects on various periodontal bacteria. The results showed that "polyphenols" had a "significant inhibitory" effect on the reproduction of periodontal bacteria. Therefore, scientists believe that this compound can effectively prevent the development of periodontal disease. Polyphenols exist in grape seeds and skins. When grapes are processed into wine, the alcohol produced by fermentation will decompose polyphenols. The reason why white wine doesn't contain so many "polyphenols" is that grape skins need to be removed in the production process. Although excessive drinking will increase the risk of oral cancer, red wine has shown many health benefits, for example, it can reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's disease, which is also attributed to the existence of polyphenols. In addition, red wine is a good source of cellulose, which can prevent intestinal cancer. However, experts also found that "polyphenols" can lead to the poisoning of other cells in the mouth, so more research is needed to find out how to strengthen the oral health care function of "polyphenols" without risk. The best drink to prevent breast cancer We know that breast cancer is the main malignant tumor that harms women's health, and about 6,543,800 women worldwide suffer from breast cancer every year. Men also suffer from breast cancer, but the probability of men suffering from breast cancer is less than that of women 100 times. Besides maintaining good eating and hygiene habits, what other methods can prevent this terrible disease? A recent study by American scientists shows that a chemical in red wine has a certain inhibitory effect on breast cancer, and drinking red wine in moderation can reduce the possibility of breast cancer. According to the American journal Cancer Research, scientists from the "Hope" Cancer Research Center in Los Angeles extracted a chemical component called "proanthocyanidin B dimer" from red wine and found that this component can make the breast cancer tumor of experimental mice smaller. According to statistics, among American postmenopausal women, 75% of breast cancer cases are related to the high level of estrogen in the body, so hormone suppression therapy has been paid more and more attention. Scientists say that although the "proanthocyanidin B dimer" extracted from red wine is not as powerful as synthetic drugs, drinking red wine in moderation is also a good way to prevent breast cancer. Drinking a glass of red wine every day may keep women away from breast cancer. However, scientists stressed that drinking white wine is not helpful to prevent breast cancer, because the anti-cancer chemicals extracted from red wine originally came from grape skins, while white wine is made from grape pulp. In our daily habits, when eating grapes, we always like to peel off the grape skins and spit out the grape seeds. However, this way of eating is the most unscientific. Professor Mora of the University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, found that grape skin contains a valuable substance that lowers blood pressure, which has a magical effect on lowering blood pressure. This substance is a compound of chenopolol, which also has anti-cancer effect. At the same time, anthocyanins contained in grape seeds have the functions of resisting free radicals, protecting cardiovascular system, regulating blood lipids and preventing hypertension. We think red wine is good for human body, so why is white wine not so good for human body? This is because the grape skins and seeds rich in polyphenols are removed in the production of liquor. We mentioned earlier that polyphenols have a positive effect on preventing arteriosclerosis. The content of polyphenols in grape skin is 23% ~ 35%, pulp is 2% ~ 5%, and grape seed is 65% ~ 70%. The reduction of polyphenols in liquor has no obvious effect on preventing heart disease and inhibiting arteriosclerosis. As we all know, grape meat is nutritious, fresh and delicious, and it is a good fruit. Its skin, seeds, leaves and stems should not be easily discarded, which is also beneficial to health. There is a saying in the French diet book that grapes are a generous gift from nature to people's health and beauty. Foreign experts have found that grape skin contains highly effective anticancer substances, which can inhibit the growth of cancer cells. French pharmacies sell dried red grape leaves. This is not a special leaf, but a grape leaf that naturally turns from green to red in autumn. Red grape leaves have a good effect on leg swelling, varicose veins, fragile capillaries and hemorrhoids. Because red grape leaves contain anti-free radical components, it also helps to clean up the oil on the blood vessel wall, supplement vitamin P, and relieve the bleeding of veins and capillaries. The research of Bordeaux University in France also found that grape skins and seeds are rich in nutrients, and grape seeds are rich in antioxidant and anti-aging substances OPC. The efficacy of OPC is dozens of times higher than that of vitamins C and E, and grape seeds are easily absorbed after entering the human body, with 85% bioavailability in the human body, enhancing human immunity and delaying skin aging. It has become a habit for French people to eat grapes with skins and seeds. Tips: The choice of wine glasses is not appropriate. A wine glass can't taste the characteristics of wine. Choosing the right wine glass can give full play to the characteristics of wine. When tasting wine, a tulip-shaped or necked transparent glass is the best choice, which can concentrate the aroma of wine near the mouth of the glass, making it easy to smell and judge. Don't have carved flowers or other colors, so as not to make a wrong judgment on the color of wine. Three Taboos for Drinking Red Wine As an advanced drink, red wine can be described as a good product on the table, but when drinking it, we must pay attention to the following taboos: ★ Taboos are accompanied by seafood. Generally speaking, red wine with red meat conforms to the cooking rules, because the combination of tannins in red wine and protein in red meat can make your digestion more "smooth". However, if red wine is mixed with some seafood (such as crabs, prawns, etc.). ), it will seriously destroy the taste of seafood, and the wine itself will even bring an annoying metallic taste. ★ Two bogeys drinking various salads with vinegar usually does not affect the style of wine, but if the salad is mixed with vinegar and eaten with red wine, the taste will be greatly reduced. At this time, you might as well choose lemonade, because the citric acid in it can be in harmony with the character of wine. In addition, cheese and wine are an ideal combination of nature, just be careful not to mix spicy cheese with refined wine. ★ three bogeys "sea" drinking experts believe that drinking red wine should be 50 ~ 100 ml each time, and should not exceed 250 ml per day. Professor Doyle pointed out that the death rate of people who drink moderately is 28% lower than that of people who don't drink at all, but if it exceeds this limit, the death rate will rise instead of falling. Excessive drinking is not only an important cause of liver cancer, liver cirrhosis and other diseases, but also social problems caused by drinking are endless. In addition, it is best to drink red wine while eating, which can prevent the stomach from absorbing ethanol and reduce the ethanol concentration in the blood by 50%.