Red Wine Could Be Considered Heathy... But How Much of It?

How big of a deal hypertension actually is.

You mentioned all those things that people look at and measure and try to sort of gain insights from. Arguably high blood pressure and hypertension is bigger than all of them combined. I don't even, I'm not even sure it's arguable. It is the number one preventable cause of death in the world by far causes 11 million deaths per year. Roughly 1 in 3 of the world's adults has high blood pressure. 50% of people don't even know that they have it. And so it is the number one sort of preventable chronic disease in the world.

There is some data that shows that a little bit of red wine has benefits for cardiovascular health.

Data shows that mild to moderate amounts of red wine in particular, as you mentioned, could have a potential beneficial effect. But then excessive amounts, which usually for a man means over two ounces a day. For a woman over one ounce of alcohol a day.

That'S not very much wine.