Moderate Drinking Of Alcohol Benefits Your Health In These 5 Ways

Moderate alcohol consumption is defined as having up to one drink per day for women and up to two drinks per day for men.

Here is our list of five ways that drinking alcohol in moderation (when you're of the legal drinking age of course) might benefit your health.


1. It Can Lower Your Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease

Moderate alcohol consumption has also been linked with beneficial changes ranging from better sensitivity to insulin to improvements in factors that influence blood clotting....Such changes would tend to prevent the formation of small blood clots that can block arteries in the heart, neck, and brain, the ultimate cause of many heart attacks and the most common kind of stroke.

2. It Can Lengthen Your Life

Drinking occasionally could add a few years to your life. Drinking less than four or two drinks per day for men and women respectively could reduce the risk of death by 18 percent.

3. It Can Improve Your Libido

Contrary to prior beliefs, newer research has found that moderate drinking might actually protect against erectile dysfunction in the same way that drinking red wine might benefit heart disease.

4. It Helps Prevent Against the Common Cold

Drinking eight to 14 glasses of wine per week, particularly red wine, one could see a 60-percent reduction in the risk of developing a cold.

5. Lowers The Chance Of Diabetes

Healthy adults who drink one to two glasses per day have a decreased chance of developing type 2 diabetes, in comparison to those who don't drink at all. Moderate alcohol consumption can play a part in a healthy lifestyle to help reduce the risk of developing diabetes type 2.