A Cup of Wine a Day Keeps The Doctor Away

Wine is called as one of the oldest drinks and effective medicine in the world history. It's not exaggerated. Actually, wine can be used as auxiliary therapy for certain diseases.

Cardiovascular disease prevention

Proanthocyanidin, one ingredient in wine, can restrain the overproduction of ammonia which makes hemal walls impermeable and put patients in the danger of arteriosclerosis. Besides, it can reduce the death risks of myocardial infarction. From a American medical research statistics, those who often drink low-alcohol wine, such as the French and the Italian, have low mortality risks of heart diseases; while those who prefer liquor to wine, like the Americans and the Finn, suffer high risks of heart attacks.
Kidney stone prevention

It's found that moderate wine drinking can prevent kidney stones. Medical experts of Munich university institute recently point out that it's not correct to believe that all beverage can prevent kidney stones. The point is what kind of beverage to drink. Through study on 45,000 healthy people and patients, the researchers confirmed that moderate wine drinkers are less likely to get kidney diseases. They also find different moderate beverage drinkers tend to have different kidney stone risks. A quarter liter of coffee a day lower 10% risks of kidney stones while black tea lower 14 %. Of all beverage, wine could lower 36% risks, which means wine drinkers have fewest chance of getting kidney stone.

Breast cancer prevention

According to a latest study, wine is found to strongly inhibit against cancer when it's fed to cancer affective mice. It's discovered that wine contains a chemical that can prevent breast cancer. In a press conference, a spokesman of a wine institute located in San Francisco said that they found there is a kind of substance, in red wine and white wine, that is defensive against breast cancer. The substance is effective because it has anti-estrogen effect while estrogen is associated with breast cancer.

Flu prevention

So far, there is no remedy for influenza in the world, as most flu virus become resistant to treatment. However, it's found that constant wine drinkers rarely get cold. A study on this phenomenon is made. Red wine, white wine and grape juice are mixed with flu virus separately, and the result shows that some common flu virus, such as herpes simplex virus and coxsackie virus, loses vitality in the mixed juice, of which grape juice turns out to be most effective. Scientists hold that grapes contain "phenol compounds which can form a layer of thin film on surface of virus. The films make the virus difficult to enter into human body cells, so flu can be separated from human bodies.

Therefore, you're advised to drink a moderate amount of wine a day and it may keep you away from some common diseases.