Very sweet wines have a high alcohol content and are best consumed in moderation. Red wines like cabernets,merlot, pinots are heart healthy due to anti-oxidants
The word “MAY” nearly always occurs when researching the benefits of alcohol usage. One or two glasses of red wine MAY lower blood pressure, help with dementia and a number of ailments but the certainty of that is sketchy at best. No amount of alcohol is good for the liver which is, after all, the chemistry lab for the entire body. That said, one or two glasses of non-alcohol red wine per day MAY also be heart healthy and aid against cancer cells from developing and doesn’t damage the liver.
I hear most alchohol is good for us in small quantities.Acccording to the oldest living man its whisky. He passed at 112.
A small amount of alcohol MAY be beneficial. After all, the human body (and all omnivores and herbivores) manufacture small amounts of alcohol in the intestines as vegetable matter breaks down. Only in rare cases does it become an issue. Resveratrol, the main antioxidant found in red wine is also found in dark grape juice and in some veggies, but not in as large a quantity as in red wine. I think moderation in all things is usually a good thing, with excess being an issue. You CAN get too much of a good thing, but too much of a bad thing is worse.
I had too much of a good thing a couple weeks ago. 3 shots of boubon and I was totally wasted.Don't know why I drank that much to this day.Usually its just a beer with tomato or V6 never hard drink.
It depends on who I am drinking the red wine with as to its complete health benefits. I think red wine also helps the heart because it helps the digestive system. Unfermented grape juice has a high sugar content that may or may not be healthy, depending on the person.
@Faye Fox So we gotta wonder, since sugar is bad, and alky is bad, is sugar fermented into alky less bad than the sugar itself? This is the type of double-speak I would expect to hear from a "health expert". Frank
What many miss discussing unfermented VS fermented red grape benefits, is that the unfermented red grape juice can actually cause digestive issues. An 8 oz glass of red grape juice may unsettle your stomach, whereas an 8 oz glass of red grape wine might settle it. The fermenting process converts sugar to alcohol. I think a daily glass of red wine after or with dinner or lunch can be a benefit both as an antioxidant and digestive system regulator. Red grape juice might also if no p It depends if your system is too much acid and needs the alkaline to soothe it. If your system is too far alkaline then maybe it needs the natural grape sugar to sweeten up its PH. Upset stomach is usually caused by too much acid, so the old remedy of a few shallows of wine settled it whereas a glass of grape juice would produce gas and more upset.
Awe, just give us a bottle of Bud Light, a good/stout margarita or a shot of Jose Cuervo (with a Bud Light as a chaser). Years upon years ago, my favorite wine was either a wine cooler or Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill.