A few pounds too much on your hips and not exercising?
Then you might be interested in the study results of Canadian scientists who see red wine as a slimming agent.
Drinking a glass of wine or doing an hour of endurance sports: According to Canadian researchers, both have similar effects on the body. As early as 2012, a team of researchers from the University of Alberta examined how red wine consumption affects cells.
"Resveratrol, an antioxidant found in red wine, has positive effects on the heart and skeletal muscle function, similar to the effects of endurance training,"
write the researchers led by Jason RB Dyck. It also states that a combination of resveratrol-containing diets and physical exercise can increase the positive effects of exercise.
Other studies also show positive effects of red wine in terms of weight loss.
Among other things, a 13-year long-term examination at Harvard Medical School.
The result:
women who regularly consumed a glass of wine were 70 percent less likely to gain weight.
The reason for this is the ingredient resveratrol, which converts white fat cells into beige, as the
fitforfun
portal
informs.
It is said that this fat can be burned more easily by the body.
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Is red wine healthy or not?
Researchers do not agree on this.
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100 to 200 grams of alcohol per week shortens life expectancy by an average of six months
The Canadian scientists recommend resveratrol above all to those people who are physically unable to exercise. They would benefit most from the phytochemicals because it not only activates a protective mechanism in the cells, strengthens and improves them, but also has a positive effect on the physical condition, the functions of the heart and muscle strength - in exactly the same way, how sport does it, the
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the study. A publication from Washington State University has also shown that resveratrol in red wine helps you lose weight, it said.
It is said to effectively prevent food cravings.
In spite of everything, red wine also contains alcohol
.
And this is one of the poisons that are harmful to the liver and nervous system.
Drinks containing alcohol should therefore not be consumed or only in small quantities, as the Federal Center for Health Education advises.
Survey on alcohol
Many scientists are skeptical of the extent to which healthy substances in alcoholic beverages can show any health benefits.
As the
health information
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the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) informs, two large international research groups have examined the effects of alcohol on health.
Their conclusion is that anyone who drinks less than 100 grams of alcohol per week on average does little or no harm to their health.
100 to 200 grams of alcohol per week shorten life expectancy on average by half a year, 200 to 350 grams by two years and more than 350 grams by five years, according to the researchers.
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