Pass The Cabernet Sauvignon
I predict we'll soon be hearing about The Wine Diet everywhere. A researcher believes he has identified the chemical in red wine that can provide significant health benefits (and it's not resveratrol):
"Essentially, drinking wine that was high in procyanidins improves the function of the linings of blood vessels, protecting against the danger of heart disease, strokes, diabetes, dementia and possibly some cancers...His nutrition plan leans heavily towards fruit, vegetables, nuts and berries, and away from sugar and saturated fats."
He recommends two glasses of wine a day for women, and three for men. Can I get a HELL YEAH?
"Essentially, drinking wine that was high in procyanidins improves the function of the linings of blood vessels, protecting against the danger of heart disease, strokes, diabetes, dementia and possibly some cancers...His nutrition plan leans heavily towards fruit, vegetables, nuts and berries, and away from sugar and saturated fats."
He recommends two glasses of wine a day for women, and three for men. Can I get a HELL YEAH?
posted by mo pie at 2:12 PM
11 Comments:
Something has also been created, oh joy, called the blackberry bellini (creme de mure, blackberry puree, prosecco, bliss).
The plan is to have around three this New Year's Eve.
Hee.
There's hope for me yet then!
Does this count if you drink a whole bottle at a Christmas party and get reallllly drunk and then puke the next morning?
If so, then I'm set -- rough night last night.
My hair hurts.
I'll do my bit for the cause.
Pfft! I'm allergic to red wine. One mouthful of that stuff could kill me. (So why does my brother give me a bottle of merlot every year?)
This diet, that diet...really, let's all just eat less and move more. It really is that simple. As for the wine diet, if that's ok, why not the meth diet? Alcohol is a drug, and it has destroyed many a life. It's the most pervasive and most detrimental drug in our culture and everyone thinks it's fine. But if I want to snort some speed, oh no, I'm a druggie and a felon! Whatever. Fat and hypocrisy are so boring.
I hear that you can sprinkle Meth on celery and then it's negative calories. We can call it the Slippery Slope diet.
Oh my god...meth on celery. I am going to go out and try that RIGHT NOW. :)
Well, it might work for me... if I had two glasses of red wine a day, I'd be unable to eat because of the HUGE CRASHING MIGRAINE. Or work. Or anything.
I wish someone would find an amazing health benefit of white wine. Or better still, gin and tonic.
"This diet, that diet...really, let's all just eat less and move more. It really is that simple."
Oh my goodness, I'd never thought of that! Anonymous, you might just start a revolution!
"Alcohol is a drug, and it has destroyed many a life."
Wow, another earth-shattering new revelation!
"Fat and hypocrisy are so boring."
So tell me, do you burn more calories being smug?
Oh, and sign me up for the Wine Diet... it will give me an excuse to splurge on that case of Zinfandel. Hell Yeah!
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