What can you find in red wine?

The beneficial effects of wine were praised by illustrious people as Plato, Hippocrates and Cicero. Now they were confirmed by scientific research.
In particular the interest is ultimately for a component of red wine: the resveratrol.
Along with polyphenols, resveratrol is contained exclusively in red wine and seems able to prevent or at least to slow the progression of multiple neoplastic, cardiovascular and ischemic diseases, to improve the resistance to stress and to prolong the lives of several organisms which were carried out trials .
One of the important quality of resveratrol is its anti-inflammatory and antiallergical action.
Drinking one or two glasses of wine during meals (and not more!) is an normal action mediterranean populations and need to be protected: drinking wine in moderate way helps to improve our state of health and our life expectancy, increasing its quality.