So you call yourself a wine connoisseur. You know how to swirl and sniff the wine without looking stupid, you go to wine tastings not to get wasted, you know the year on the bottle isn’t the expiration, and you use words like peppery, oaky, and fruity to describe the wine, not your friends.
But, even you want to know the positives and negatives of drinking wine besides sounding cool on a date and getting purple teeth? Let me dish you a serving.
Glass Half Full:
• Raises good cholesterol (HDL)
• Thins the blood
• Antioxidants in wine prevent cellular damage
• Prevention of blood clotting
• Prevention of plaque formation
How Much For Health:
• Men – No more than two drinks per day
• Women – No more than one drink per day (somehow I can’t do JUST one…)
• One drink is defined as a 5-ounce glass of red or white wine, 12 ounces of regular beer (1 bottle) or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof distilled spirits
Did you see that it says 1 or 2 drinks, not bottles per day?!
Glass Half Empty:
• Can elevate triglyceride levels
• Can increase breast cancer risk
• My trigger migraines (red wine bigger trigger than white)
• Weight gain can occur when consuming empty calories that lack nutrients
Bottom Line:
Experts recommend not starting to drink (even for the benefits) if you don’t already or drink at this frequency.
Waist Line:
You’ll be packin’ on a lot of calories and inches on your waist line with this type of drinking:
• 2 drinks per day (males) for 7 days = +1600 cals
• 1 drink per day (females for 7 days = +840 cals