A recent study has revealed that Red Wine taken in moderation at night can reduce incidence of cardiovascular disease, mortality and type-2 diabetes.
The study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that red wine drinkers had significantly increased their levels of good HDL cholesterol and had a more beneficial cholesterol ratio compared to the group that drank water.
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel wanted to look at how safe and effective it is for a specific group of people to drink moderately.
“This is what I’ve been telling people for years based on observational data. It seems to me that my patients who drink red wine in moderation tend to do better, and this really solid gold-standard kind of research confirms our intuitions about the beneficial effects of moderate alcohol intake,” Dr. James O’Keefe, chief of preventive cardiology at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City told Time.
He added that “Partly it’s the benefits of the alcohol, but red wine also contains a lot of unique antioxidants that are hard to get other places. And pairing it with dinner, like they did in the study, is key.”