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How Can You Lower Your Blood Pressure With A Wine And Cheese Party?
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Yes, we know that a wine and cheese party is a great way to socialize and unwind after a long week of work. It’s also one of the best things you can do to lower your blood pressure.
Cheese and wine parties are great for large get-togethers. As the party host, you can up the ante and have each guest do their part by going BYOB – bring your own bottle (of wine) and (exotic) cheese! In one fall sweep, you’re trotting the globe through samplings of new wines and cheeses AND enabling pleasant and civilized small talk!
Now let’s get to the meat of this article, why a cheese and wine party is the ideal means for you and your circulatory system to take a break. Wine is good for lowering blood pressure and so is cheese.
How Can Red Wine Help?
Red wine contains antioxidants, primarily resveratrol, which is part of the flavonol group. This antioxidant works towards protecting your arteries against those no-good free radicals and effectively keeps them from hardening.
Moreover, red wine’s flavonoid content prevents the blood’s platelets from conglomerating, which would inevitably lead to the creation of blood clots, a definite health risk. A glass of red wine keeps your blood flowing smoothly through your arteries.
Red wine, in addition to all that, can ensure that your artery linings keep on working, which has been proven by a few studies conducted as of late. When the linings of your arteries are working well they freely dilate and bring down your blood pressure.
A glass or two of red wine a day this is the perfect amount to keep your heart and arteries young — and keep your blood pressure normal. The darker the red wine the better. This is because dark red wines contain a higher amount of that protective flavonoid called resveratrol. Now that…is something conspicuously absent in most white wines.
Get Cheesy…and Healthy!
You better believe it – it doesn’t hurt to eat a little cheese, even if doctors may tell you it is rich in saturated fat. Like red wine, cheese is good for you if eaten in moderation.
Peptides are liberated from milk proteins as cheese is created through the fermentation of milk. Now this may not mean much to you, but peptides can manacle angiotensin (which will be explained in brief in the next paragraph) by keeping its active enzymes inhibited.
Here is what happens when angiotensin, ostensibly a protein, is transformed into angiotensin II. Angiotensin II works by holding in more water and sodium in your arteries – this is a peptide that can harm, instead of helping your arteries by constricting them. This whole process really pumps up your blood pressure.
There are also other peptides that could work productively by limiting the effects of this reaction and consequently keeping blood pressure normal. You can lower your blood pressure and relax your arteries by eating a small wedge of cheese everyday, one small step and one giant leap towards blocking off angiotensin the second.
So Who’s With Me – Wine and Cheese at My Place, Here’s to Good Health?
After a hard day at the office when tension has got your blood pressure creeping up … enjoy some nice cheeses with a glass of red wine. Take a deep breath, enjoy some pleasant, genteel conversation, and watch your blood pressure go back down. Now that’s good living.
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