Maintain Heart Health With Grape Juice
As we all know that HEART is the hour of life. If you stopped beating, ending all "living contract" someone in the world. Its heart-healthy is a wise action to avoid heart disease.
Cardiovascular disorders (CVD) are the number one cause of death in Western countries. Treatment efforts, especially the prevention, for a variety of vascular related diseases became important things that continue to be extracted. Consumption of fresh fruit juice regularly is believed to help keep someone from a variety of diseases.
The team of researchers from the Universite Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg selecting objects and test the grape juice and the effects on the heart benefits. They reported that grape juice helps protect a person from heart disease. The same effect was also found from red wine (red wine) without alcohol.
"Grape juice has the same protective effect against heart disease as red wine, but a non-alcohol," said Dr Valerie Schini-Kerth a chairman of the writing team that published the study in the journal Cardiovascular Research.
Red wine and certain types of grape juice is known to have high levels of ang polyphenoly. Polyphenols are a group of secondary metabolite produced by plants and play an important role for human health. Some of these polyphenols are a group of powerful antioxidants, while others serve to prevent and fight cancer cells, and also have antimicrobial properties (avoiding infection).
That is why, grape juice is believed to prevent and help cure some diseases such as viral influenza. Related to this research, pointed polyphenols may inhibit the production of proteins that are usually associated with cardiovascular disease.
Heart problems and blood vessels (vascular) will develop when endothelial cells present in blood vessels are not working properly.
Schini-Kerth and her team found that the content of polyphenols in grape juice can activate endothelial cells to produce nitric oxide that helps protect the body against cardiovascular disease and maintain healthy blood vessels and blood pressure. Polyphenols in red wine and fresh grape juice has the same workings.
"However, not all the grape juice has a beneficial effect like that. Only with high levels of polyphenols are able to produce optimal benefits for heart health, "Schini-Kerth said.
Number of polyphenols in grape juice, depending on the type of wine and how the manufacturing process.
"We have information about 100 different types of wine along with information about the number of its polyphenols. From there it is known that the highest protective effect was the highest polyphenolnya content, "he said.
However, Schini-Kerth, whose research was partly funded by nearly Welch Foods Inc. (producer of grape juice), revealed that currently only a little information revealed about the content of polyphenols in grape juice.
To learn more effect on humans, researchers conducted an experiment to study cells derived from pigs. They are looking for healthy blood vessels and to plan further study to see whether grape juice has an effect on blood vessels, which usually indicates a sign of cardiovascular problems.
Meanwhile, according to consultants at the division of cardiovascular disease and assistant professor of medicine at Mayo Medical School, Martha Grogan MD, likely benefits of grape juice for heart health is always there.
"There is some evidence to suggest that drinking red wine may reduce the risk of heart attack, but the benefit itself depends other factors such as antioxidant substances called flavonoids found in red wine. Grape juice and red grape juice also contain flavonoids, "he said.
He further said that red wine also contains a substance called resveratrol can reduce the risk of blood clot. This substance is also contained in grape skins and seeds. But not yet known whether the content of resveratrol in the wine enough to bring significant benefits to health.
American Heart Association does not recommend that anyone consume alcohol just to prevent heart disease. Remember that alcohol may increase the risk of high blood pressure, obesity, stroke, and cancer.
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