best dry red wine for health
16 Wines For Weight Loss By Dana Leigh Smith From drowning out rowdy barflys to cutting loose with friends, there are tons of reasons to sip some wine this weekend. Why wine, you ask? Because many other alcoholic beverages are simply subpar. Party cocktails are typically calorie-laden crapshoots and beer can make even the slimmest person uncomfortably bloated. Wine, on the other hand, is reliable. You always know what you’re going to get when you order a glass of red, white or bubbly. (Still prefer stout to sauvignon? Check out our exlcusive list of The Best & Worst Beers for Weight Loss.) While we do love wine, as you’ve likely just gathered, we are also big proponents of drinking in moderation. If you’re not careful, those innocent glasses can add up quickly! To help you stay slim through 2015, we’ve put together a list of 16 wines—nearly all of which are well under 120 calories per glass. And the good news keeps on coming: In addition to being waist-friendly, they're all easy on the wallet and widely available, so you won't have to search far and wide to find them.
Sparkling Wines and Champagne A glass of bubbly is festive, light and effervescent. Stock up on a few bottles to get through all of your celebratory affairs. Everyone looks classier with a champagne flute and appreciates a bottle as a gift! Low Alcohol (below 11% ABV) Yellowglen Sparkling Pink 65 Soft Rosé (Per 5 fl. oz: 65 calories, 6% ABV)Blossom Hill Sparkling Moscato (Per 5 fl. oz: 115 calories, 6.5% ABV) High Alcohol (above 11% ABV)` Lunetta Prosecco (Per 5 fl oz: 110 calories, 11.5% ABV)Laurent-Perrier NV Ultra Brut Champagne (Per 5 fl oz: 98 calories, 12% ABV) Need another reason to enjoy a glass of cabernet? A Journal of Biological Chemistry study found that a compound found in red wine can actually block the growth of fat cells. The drink also has high levels of resveratrol, a polyphenol that helps lower blood pressure and “bad” LDL cholesterol. Light Alcohol (under 13.5% ABV) Cupcake Vineyards Chianti (Per 5 fl. oz: 111 calories, 12% ABV)Blossom Hill Cabernet Sauvignon (Per 5 fl. oz: 114 calories, 13% ABV)
High Alcohol (over 13.5% ABV) Cavit Cabernet Sauvignon (Per 5 fl. oz: 112 calories, 15.4% ABV)Yellow Tail Shiraz (Per 5 fl. oz: 120 calories, 13.5% ABV) Everyone loves a light and refreshing sweet white; they make great hostess gifts for those who aren’t big fans of reds, especially for those who have a lot of white carpeting. Light Alcohol (under 9% ABV) The Skinny Vine Thin Zin (Per 5 fl. oz: 89 calories, 7.3% ABV)Yellow Tail Moscato (Per 5 fl. oz: 114 calories, 7.5% ABV) High Alcohol (over 9% ABV) Cavit Riesling (Per 5 fl. oz: 120 calories, 11.6% ABV)Sutter Home Riesling (Per 5 fl. oz: 130 calories, 12.5% ABV) If sweet whites give you a sugar rush, buy a few bottles of the dryer varieties. All of our picks come in under 112 calories a glass. It doesn’t get much better than that! Light Alcohol (under 12% ABV) Brancott Estate Flight Song Sauvignon Blanc (Per 5 fl. oz: 88 calories, 9% ABV)The Skinny Vine Slim Chardonnay (Per 5 fl. oz: 86 calories, 8.5% ABV)
10 International Breakfasts Healthier Than Yours Your Day in Health: March 1 Wine Insider: Best Reds Under $10Studies show that drinking a glass or two of wine every day (particularly red) can lower your risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and even cancer. I for one take this research very seriously, religiously pouring myself two glasses every evening, whether I’m thirsty or really, really thirsty. Trouble is, such preventive health care can be expensive. And, in this case, it’s not even tax-deductible. So I’ve made it my mission to maintain a list of inexpensive wines I’d happily drink every day, just in case my doctor orders me to. Click for our favorite 10 red wines that won’t leave your budget bleeding red.Here’s to great wine and good health. Francis Ford Coppola Rosso, $8 Rosemount Shiraz/Cabernet Blend, $8 Beringer Founder's Estate Cabernet, $9 Robert Mondavi Meritage Private Selection, $9 The Show Cabernet Sauvignon, $11
Hawk Crest Cabernet, $12 Sterling Cabernet Sauvignon Vintner's Collection, $12 337 Lodi Cabernet Sauvignon, $14 Louis Martini Sonoma Cabernet Sauvignon, $15 Keep this field blank Enter your email address You may unsubscribe at any time.The questions of whether or not red wine is good for us, and if so, how much or little of it we should drink in order to reap the benefits have plagued us for what seems like an eternity. I have good news for today, though: A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine figured out how much red wine you should drink to experience the lowered cholesterol and other health benefits red wine can bestow upon us. Concrete proof that red wine is good for us! The research team who lead this study hail from the University of the Negev. The initial goal was to find out whether those with Type 2 diabetes — who are more likely to suffer from heart disease and lower levels of HDL, or good cholesterol — could benefit from drinking red wine in small amounts.
It's important to also note that the researchers only studied people who had controlled Type 2 diabetes and who had a low risk of abusing alcohol. They also chose individuals who did not identify as regular wine drinkers to make sure that the effects the study produced were solely linked to the addition of red wine into their diets. 224 people fit this description. These participants were told to start drinking one of three different beverages with their dinners: Five ounces of mineral water, five ounces of dry white wine, or five ounces of dry red wine. If you're wondering why they chose five ounces specifically, it's because that's how much is technically in one serving of wine. The study was a long-term one conducted over the course of two years, during which time the participants drank their beverage with dinner every night; additionally, they had no calorie restrictions on what they could consume, as long as whatever they ate followed the Mediterranean diet. The participants checked in with researchers twice during that two-year span, at which points they gave blood samples and took surveys to create an accurate picture of how their biomarkers changed during the experiment.