The Ideal Wine Company team
recently learned that new research has indicated that drinking a glass of red
wine a day could be good for people with type 2 diabetes.
Health benefits
If you’re a regular reader of the
Ideal Wine Company blog, you’ll know that various studies have shown that there
are a number of health benefits to red wine. The anti-oxidants in your
favourite tipple can be better
for you than an hour in the gym, as well as help
ward off age-related memory decline. New research has shown that red wine
might also be good for people with type 2 diabetes as well.
The study
The
Independent reported that it was research recently published in the ‘Annals
of Internal Medicine’ journal that suggested this ground breaking finding. The
study involved 224 participants with type 2 diabetes (which is linked to
obesity), and who often abstain from alcohol. The subjects were randomly asked
to drink 150 millilitres of water, white wine or red wine with their
evening meal for two years.
Participants who had a glass of
red wine with their evening meals had healthier blood fat profiles. In other
words they had more “good” cholesterol than participants who drank mineral
water or white wine. They boasted better cholesterol levels and healthier
hearts, something researchers linked to the phenol antioxidants found in the
dark grapes used to create red wine.
Found to be superior
Iris Shai, the professor from
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev who served as the lead scientist on the
study, commented on its results. Shai said: "Red wine was found to be
superior in improving overall metabolic profiles.
"Initiating moderate wine
intake, especially red wine, among well-controlled diabetics, as part of a
healthy diet, is apparently safe, and modestly decreases cardio-metabolic risk.
The differential genetic effects that were found may assist in identifying
diabetic patients in whom moderate wine consumption may induce greater clinical
benefit."
Try our red wine
This just goes to show that you
can reap a number of health benefits when you drink a glass of red wine a day.
Here at the Ideal Wine Company we feature a number of fabulous red vintages on
our product list. You might want to buy
the Antinori Tignanello Toscana IGT 1990, a delightful vintage from Italy
that’ll provide you with a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
