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Friday, 13 March 2015
Should I Drink Red Wine?
5/5 say yes! Cheers to your health! All five of Time's Wine Experts give red wine a purple-stained smile.
But recent research has given resveratrol the side eye as the reason
for wine’s healthy glow. The aptly-named in CHIANTI study, a 16-year-long
look at the blood, urine and dietary questionnaires of hundreds of
people living in the Italian wine-making region of Chianti, recently
found that resveratrol wasn’t associated with disease or lifespan, to
the shock and dismay of wine lovers everywhere. But that doesn’t mean
red wine does nothing for you—just that resveratrol might not be
compound that deserves all the credit. “Many studies have shown that
moderate alcohol consumption, especially wine, is associated with lower
cardiovascular disease and mortality compared with both no alcohol
consumption or consumption above moderate,” says Luigi Ferrucci,
founder of the in CHIANTI study and now scientific director of the
National Institute on Aging. “The mechanism of this association is not
clear, and does not appear to be related to resveratrol.”
What we do know, says David Katz, MD, director of
the Yale University Prevention Research Center, is that drinking
habitually but moderately prevails in the Mediterranean diet. “So
whatever the mechanisms, moderate alcohol intake—perhaps red wine
especially—is associated with health and long life,” Katz says.
Light drinking in general—up to a drink a day for women, and two for men—is known to be good for you, says James O’Keefe, MD, chief of preventive cardiology at Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City. It’s associated
with lower risk for coronary artery disease, diabetes, congestive heart
failure and stroke. And all of our experts agreed that red wine takes
the ribbon. “Red wine is clearly the drink of choice if you are doing
light to moderate drinking for your health, and daily consumption just
before or with the evening meal may be the most protective pattern,”
O’Keefe says.
In fact, O’Keefe says his grandma Dorothy used to enjoy a happy hour
drink every night, and she lived to be 103. “She used to joke, ‘The key
to a long healthy life is to not drink too much…but then again, don’t
drink too little either.’”
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