While treating yourself to a steak, winding down after a long day, or enjoying an outside meal at a restaurant, you might opt for a glass of red wine. According to experts, the research about alcohol and your health isn’t conclusive, and believe it or not, the risks frequently outweigh any benefits.
In the past, that glass may have been thought to be beneficial to your health, particularly when it comes to your heart. This increase in intake is detrimental to your health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advises reducing your alcohol consumption to one drink per day for females and two drinks per day for men if you already do so.
According to Everyday Health, French scientists developed a notion known as the French paradox in the 1980s. It was discussed how, despite consuming more saturated fat and dietary cholesterol from foods like cheese and butter, the French had a low incidence of heart disease-related deaths. Red wine was supposedly the X-factor. Resveratrol, which is derived from grape skins, and other flavonoids, which are antioxidants found in red wine, have been linked to cardioprotective effects.
Everyday Health notes that this theory hasn’t, however, been validated. Resveratrol, an antioxidant found in wine, has been demonstrated to have positive effects on cells in a test tube research and under specific conditions.
This doesn’t however mean you should throw away all your red wine bottles, it means you shouldn’t abuse it in the name of it being ‘healthy’ for you. Everything, especially alcohol, should be used in moderation.
Written for Bona.
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