A study shows that moderate wine consumption bolsters the health benefits of sport
A New Year’s resolution for many people is to lose weight, particularly after going through several weeks filled with family reunions and dinners with workmates, friends, former schoolmates and so on. We usually gain some extra pounds in December and want to get rid of them in January. At that point we decide to do some physical exercise. Right, if to that exercise you add some moderate wine consumption, the effects will be even more beneficial for your body.
Czech researcher Milos Táborský, head of Cardiology at Palacký University Hospital (Olomouc, Czech Republic) has published a study that shows that a moderate wine consumption, together with the practise of physical exercise, improves the markers of atherosclerosis and also minimises the risk of heart disease. Drinking wine, either red or white, increased HDL cholesterol levels (good cholesterol) and simultaneously reduced LDL cholesterol levels (bad cholesterol) among those people under study who practised sport twice a week.
The study was carried out on 146 people and took place over a 12-month period. The ingestion of wine was programmed to take place five days a week. Men had between two and two and a half glasses a day. Women had between one and two glasses. Fifty per cent of the subjects drank red wine whereas the others had white wine.
In both cases, it was proved that wine increased the positive effects of exercise in the body of the subjects under study. That is, exercise is good, but it is even better when accompanied with a moderate consumption of red or white wine.
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