How To Preserve Your WineHow Much Wine Is Healthy?
How much wine should we drink? Follow Foods For Long Life on Pinterest and Facebook . Take a peek at Health Begins in the Kitchen . Is Wine Healthy? Over the years we've seen numerous headlines about drinking wine, and other forms of alcohol, for our health. If you're from an Italian family with grandparents who lived into their 80's or 90's, you'd say, "duh", but there's a lot more to this story than that. Benefits and Risks for the Heart The benefits of drinking wine and other forms of alcohol are mostly for the heart. Studies have shown that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol: * can reduce blood clots * increases your good cholesterol, or HDL * helps reduce your bad cholesterol, or LDL, which helps prevent damage to your arteries Despite these benefits, the American Heart Association and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute do not recommend that you start drinking just for health reasons. But if you already drink, you should do so in modera...