According
to the preconceived notion, drinking alcohol is harmful to the body. It
is partly true. Drinking alcohol is harmful to the body, but only in
huge proportions. In fact, despite popular belief, drinking alcohol is
also good for health.
Here are 8 alcohols that are secretly keeping you healthy:
- Beer: The most common alcoholic drink, beer is
loaded with antioxidants called phenols. This protects you against
suffering from heart diseases. Beer also lowers the risk of acquiring
high blood pressure and helps maintaining it.
- Red Wine: Apart from being a classy drink and
having the same benefits of beer, the additional brownie points of red
wine is that it helps in increasing life span by generating longevity
genes. It also increases good cholesterol and reduces bad cholesterol in
the body.
- Ethanol: Ethanol reduces the risk of wear and tear
in the brain neurons. Any damage to the neurons may lead to Alzheimer's
or dementia. Hence ethanol helps to prevent any harm to the brain
cells.
- Vodka: Vodka helps in clearing bad breath as the
high alcohol content kills all bad odour bacteria present. It also helps
to reduce stress and disinfect wound. It improves the health of the
skin and stimulates hair growth. Toothache is also another issue which
Vodka can work wonders on.
- Whisky: Whisky helps to numb throat pain when it
is gargled in a mixture with warm water. It stimulates weight loss.
Whisky also helps in preventing dementia. Other benefits of this drink
that it prevents diabetes and cancer. It also helps to keep the heart
healthy, increases the level of good cholesterol and terminates blood
clots. Whiskey is believed to be one of the healthiest drinks among the
alcoholic beverages.
- Tonic: The combination of gin and tonic is very
useful while treating malarial infection as it contains quinine; which
is used for the treatment of malaria.
- Brandy: Brandy is one alcoholic drink which is
full of healthy antioxidants. It has anti ageing properties; hence is
very good for the skin. Brandy also reduces the level of bad cholesterol
in the body. It also helps in the treatment of bladder and ovarian
cancer as well as sore throats and cough.
- Rum: Rum increases life longevity. It is very
beneficial for the heart. It also functions as a blood thinner and helps
in increasing the level of good cholesterol. Having this wonderful
drink occasionally also guards you against osteoporosis and common cold.