Red, heart disease, hungry sharks and knights in shining armor
What's so special about wine? What is it that there may be a greater protection against coronary heart disease is, and perhaps other diseases, other forms of alcohol?
In recent years, scientists have concluded without doubt that many human diseases such as heart disease, cancer and the aging process is caused or stimulated by a ravenous group of chemicals called free radicals, which actlike hungry sharks. These highly charged little villains steal the body and healthy cell membranes through a process called oxidation. In this scenario, there is a knight in shining armor that jumps to the rescue and purges these ever hungry little killers. The name of our hero is antioxidants.
Without too technical for the oxidation process in our bodies is essential for the good without it, for example, we would not be able to extract energy from food.But if there are too many free radicals in our bodies that can be harmful.
Our body has its own defenses against free radicals, in the form of enzymes that transform him into a position, the hungry little sharks into harmless water. However, sometimes, the natural defense mechanisms of our body to cope not. Other times, external events lead to a huge increase of free radicals in our body, such as X-rays, cigarette smoke and exposure to toxic substances. Sometimes the increase in free radicals swampheld our defenses and illnesses such as radiation sickness.
So what does oxidation and free radicals to do with heart disease?
low-density lipoproteins, commonly known as "bad" LDL penetrate, and may collect against the inner walls of our arteries, under certain conditions constitute fatty streaks and plaques. Taken alone, LDL particles are not so dangerous it seems, however, if they are attacked by free radicals, dangerous and somewhat aggressive cells,Location penetrate and damage the smooth inner walls of our arteries. This process is called oxidation. Oxidized LDL is known to be the culprit in the promotion of atherosclerosis, heart disease and stroke.
Antioxidants, as the name suggests (antioxidants) can help the oxidation process that is done, the results of free radicals, their stuff. The study was was more antioxidant vitamins (A, E, beta-carotene), but much work done on the runhealth benefits of red wine. While most research on red wine has heart disease was made in relation to coronary arteries, it seems that the benefits of wine did not stop there.
Red wine and Coronary Heart Disease
Red wine contains a broad spectrum of flavonoids, which are chemicals that give the wine its particular taste and character, distinguishing from the others. Many of these flavonoids act as antioxidants. Perhaps theForerunner of wine research was carried out by a certain disease Serge Renaud, the heart, coronary discovered the French Paradox, which suggested that wine was the decisive factor for the protection of people in the south of France for their high fat diets and much, ultimately. Even if these people want to eat large amounts of high fat cheese, pate, salami, and have some of the lowest rates of heart disease in the world.
Another study, statistical rather thanpractical, from a gray professor at the University of Bern in Switzerland, focusing on the disease at low, medium and high coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality data from the World Health Organization.
What did you find? Now, in areas of high mortality were Finland and Scotland were the regions of central Italy, and the low CHD areas included Spain, Italy and France. He has heart attack frequencies with antioxidants in blood samples taken from people living in the comparisonAreas.
Vitamin E and heart disease
What he found was very interesting, the results showed that high levels of antioxidants, particularly vitamin E, coincided with low death rates from heart disease. In addition, the results showed that levels of vitamin E 94% accurate prediction of CHD rates than were cholesterol levels or blood pressure numbers! Nutrition, high CHD regions drink very little addition, as the case of wine, while the regions traditionally accompany their lowMeals a day with wine.
It seems certain strange that two much studied cities, Glasgow in Scotland and Toulouse in France, but have many similarities and many differences. Residents of both cities eat tremendous amounts of fatty foods, drink a traditional lack of exercise and alcohol. The striking difference is that while people in Glasgow one of the highest rates of coronary heart disease in the world, are the fortunate people of Toulouse, one of the lowest.Traditionally beer and spirits are the preferred drinks in Glasgow, while people drink red wine Toulouse.
It was also suggested that drinking in moderation with meals is beneficial, while binge drinking is harmful in the bar in the evening. It seems the southern Europeans do not drink alcohol for the money, but only as a pleasant accompaniment to their meals.
At first the large heart institutions such as the American College of Cardiology andthe American Heart Association ignored both antioxidants and frowned upon wine. While it is clear that there could be potentially dangerous to patients' medical recommend starting his alcohol consumption, there is no evidence it is also strange that many of them have to ignore years to come. Well, even if they do not promote the absorption of vitamin pills, antioxidants and free radicals are now recognized. But according to the AHA "There is no scientific evidence that consumptionwine or other alcoholic beverage to replace conventional measures. No studies directly comparing were conducted to determine the specific effect of wine or other alcoholic beverages taken on the risk of heart disease o. Only question is who should pay for such a study. Clinical trials aim to show something to be better than others, or if a certain substance is beneficial to health. The cost of clinical trials is so high that only the pharmaceutical industryThe industry have the financial strength to invest in them – invest is the right word. What a surprise.