Toast to your wellbeing with a glass of champagne!
Did you know there are actual health benefits of champagne? Whether it’s the announcement of your engagement, a birthday, an anniversary, or the birth of a new baby, champagne is a drink that is synonymous with celebration.
Turns out, it’s also synonymous with good health! Just like white and red wine offer a lot of health benefits, so too champagne can do wonders to improve your overall health. Here are some of the main health benefits of champagne:
- Low in calories — For those trying to lose weight, champagne is the perfect alcohol to drink. A glass of champagne contains jus 80 calories, while a glass of wine has 120 calories, a light beer has 100 calories, and even a shot of hard alcohol has at least 100 as well.
- Improves Brain Function –– Drinking champagne has been proven to improve your spatial memory, which is your ability to recognize and remember your surroundings. It also plays a role in your performance of calculations and complex tasks. As you get older, your spatial memory declines, and too much of a decline can lead to dementia or Alzheimer’s. Drinking champagne can help to stave off the effects of age-related brain function decline and keep your brain sharp!
- More filling –– Want to drink less while still enjoying your night out? The bubbles in your champagne will make you feel full more quickly, causing you to stop drinking sooner than you would with non-carbonated drinks. Beer has the same effect.
- Reduces blood pressure — All wines are great for your heart health, but it turns out that champagne in particular is excellent for your blood pressure. Champagne slows down the rate at which nitric oxide is removed from your blood, and this can lead to a reduced risk of heart disease, stroke, and hypertension.
READ MORE: Awesome Wine and Chocolate Pairings
- Improves your mood –– Champagne isn’t just tasty and alcoholic, it’s also going to give you a great night! Not only does the alcohol protect your brain from decay, but it stimulates the production of the neurochemicals that make you feel happy and positive. The mental boost offered by champagne is one of the reasons that so many people associate drinking it with celebrations!
- Provides antioxidants — Just like red and white wine, champagne (made from grapes, just like wine) is loaded with healthy antioxidants. Red wine contains the highest levels of antioxidants, but white wine and champagne contain comparable amounts. The antioxidants in champagne can help to improve heart health, fight free radicals, defend nerve cells from damage, and reduce the risk of cancer.
- Prevent blood clots –– White wine, red wine, and champagne all contain an antioxidant known as resveratrol. Resveratrol is a powerful antioxidant found in grapes (read more on the health benefits of grapes here)that can stop the blood from clotting. When arterial damage causes clots, the flow of blood is stopped–thereby leading to heart attacks and strokes. By preventing blood clots, you essentially reduce your risk of serious heart damage.
- Improve short term memory –– Not only does champagne help to improve your spatial memory, but it can also enhance your recall. Some experts believe that drinking champagne regularly can boost your memory drastically, thanks to champagne’s ability to increase the production of a protein in the brain that contributes to your short term memory. Best of all, increasing the production of said protein can do wonders for many of your other cognitive functions as well.
Seems like there are a lot of awesome reasons to add champagne to your life!
