Moderate Drinking of Wine

Although wine is important to our health, excessive drinking and drinking at any time are not encouraged. So moderate drinking of wine is important and people should also know how to drink wine correctly.

First, wine drinker should not forget to drink 1-1.5 liter of water every day.

Second, traditionally, people drink wine with food, so it’s the best to drink when people eat. Unlike most of the other foods, wine can be absorbed without pre-digestion. If people drink without food, the content of alcohol in vivo reaches to the maximum value 30-60 minutes after drinking and the antioxidant of wine begin to take effect. If people drink wine with food, wine and other food are digested together. The absorption of wine in this way is slowed down to 1-3 hours which allow adequate time for the scavenger of active oxygen. This way of drinking is good for digestion. It also helps to stimulate people’s appetite and inhibit the absorption of alcohol. In fact, the content of alcohol in blood is only about 1/2 than that of drinking without food.

Third, the drinking amount of wine is related to people’s income and habit. Some people like wine and drink wine regularly for their health. Some people don’t drink much so that they can not enjoy the health and fun that wine brings to them. According to research made by Australian scientists in 1997, it is better for men to drink 1-4 glasses and for women to drink 1-2 glasses of wine every day. Because for these wine drinkers, the rate of being attacked by heart diseases are only 30% of that of the obstinate (McE Iduff & Dobson, 1997). Report made in 1997, by Dr. Orgozo from the central hospital of Bordeaux University in France, shows that the elder people who drink 3-4 glasses of red wine every day are only 25% possible to get the disease of cretinism than the obstinate.

In addition, the calorific value of wine is the same or a little bit more than that of milk which is brought to people in the form of alcohol. The sugar in sweet wine can also provide people heat energy. The calorific value of 1 gram of alcohol is 7.1 calories. For 1 liter of wine with 10 degrees of alcohol, the calorific value is 560 calories. For 1 liter of wine with 12 degrees of alcohol, it is 700 calories. The alcohol degree of wine is normally between 10-12. The heat energy brought to people in the form of alcohol can not be more than20% of what people need. This is the scientific measurement to the amount of wine drinking. According to people’s difference in height, weight and labor intensity, an adult needs 1200-2400 calories of heat energy for the whole day,? that is? 50-100 calories/hour. So the drinking amount of wine should be 0.4-0.8 liters/day,? that is one or half bottle of ordinary dry wine.