A
Recipe for Health -- Is Champagne good for your health?
Yes, it is!
You thought it was only red wine and now you know it’s also champagne. Wow we
can now drink ourselves to health. Well not exactly. Studies show that those
who drink a glass or may-be two of wine a day live longer, are healthier, have
better cognition, improved sex life and are generally over all happier than
those who either don’t drink or drink too much. There are many reasons for this
conclusion.
Wine specifically helps you to relax. It is
especially good when dining. It improves circulation and improved circulation
is good for both the brain inside your head and the brain below the belt. Blood
and good circulation bring nutrients to the organs of our body. So we do have
the ability to both think and procreate at the same time; although few of us
use both our brains when making “whoopee.”
Wine is high in antioxidants and phenols which are
good for our health by helping the body to fight off free radicals. Free
radicals bombard our being every day including pollution, poor diet, aging and
stress. Wine and more specifically all alcohol may just in fact help to kill
bacteria from food that could make us sick. After all alcohol is an antiseptic
and as a drinkable substance it may in fact be true that a drink of wine with a
meal keeps the gut free of bad bacteria. In Biblical times wine was drank
instead of water because water was not sanitary and because both wine and beer
provided sustenance.
Now champagne is also shown to be good for your
health or more specifically good for the mind. Champagne according to a study
in The Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry is packed full of those
wonderful polyphenols, chemical substances derived from plants that are
antioxidants which help cells avoid destruction from free radicals. The study
showed that a group of neuron cells penetrated with champagne extracts
demonstrated significant protection against damage to the brain.
The reason for this they concluded was the caffeic
acid and tyrosol antioxidants in champagne contain anti-inflammatory
characteristics. This keeps the cells protected against damage. Furthermore,
caffeic acid and tyrosol also have the ability to remove toxic chemicals from
the body. So although we think of champagne as a celebratory drink it actually
may truly be a toast to your health.
My $300.00 bottle of champagne (given as a gift) Dom
Pe’rignon 1996 may well have been worth the price. (See blog archives for more
on the $300.00 bottle) Perhaps that is the question. Is a $300.00 bottle better
for brain health than a $50.00 bottle or are they virtually the same? Does it
count if you open a bottle….and well you know….once you open the bottle it
needs to be finished? I think not. I
think it also means a glass or two to your health and beyond that you've had
too much to drink. But it is so much fun to drink champagne.
When I think of champagne I remember back to a
couple of weddings I attended where the primary drink was champagne. Those were
very jovial celebrations. Can you
remember your champagne celebrations? Most likely they were some of the times
we remember the most; weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, engagements and so
on. So bring them on; Dom Pe’rignons, The Venue Clicquots and the Louie
Roederers with all their healthful antioxidants and joyous bliss for it is
always a time to celebrate when we drink to our health.
From: Recipes for Health, Sex, Happiness and Love
Doctor Lynn
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