Dr Pete's Health Secrets

      Moderate amounts of alcoholic beverages like wine can have beneficial effects on your health.  These include reduction in anxiety and stress, the lowering of cholesterol by increasing its metabolism in the liver and as an aid to food digestion. The healthy limit of alcohol is 14 units for women and 21 units for men per week when taken with food. A unit is a small wine glass or half a glass of normal strength beer.  Red wine contains the anti oxidant called reservetrol . Research has shown that a glass of red wine a day lowers your risk of heart disease and stroke. Alcohol, after it is consumed, enters the blood and has various effects on every conceivable part of the body. Regular consumption of alcohol over years or maybe even decades can have very harmful effects on your body. A minute portion of alcohol is enough to affect you. When it is consumed, it goes around your various systems via your blood. A very small portion of what you drink is ...

          The active compounds in red wine are ethanol and a compound derived from red grapes known as resveratrol. Resveratrol's role in preventing heart disease is well established by many large scientific studies across continents. In addition it has the following proven health benefits. Excessive alcohol intake has its health drawbacks.   Two glasses of wine is the maximum safe daily limit for women and three for men. Prevents memory-loss Prof Shetty and his team in Texas conducted a research believing that the mentioned compound has positive effects on a part of the brain called the hippocampus, which is important to memory.  Based on the research, the control rats that did not get resveratrol still have good spatial learning ability. However, after around 22 months, their new spatial memories begin to decline significantly.  Meanwhile, rats treated with resveratrol have improved memory and spatial learning. Based on...