How to Lose Weight With Wine

Losing weight and enjoying wine are no longer incompatible. In fact, the medical community has found wine helps your body maintain good health and fight cancer, heart disease and ulcers. Dieticians at the University of Michigan suggest using wine in cooking, specifically as a substitute for salt, noting that the alcohol burns off during the cooking process, reducing the calories and leaving behind only the flavor. There is no reason that the joy and health benefits found in wine cannot be incorporated into any diet regime. Add this to my Recipe Box.

Instructions

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Choose wine with few calories. The killers in any diet are the calories. The calories in wine come solely from the alcohol content. One serving of wine with a normal proof---a percentage measure of alcohol by volume in the bottle---has 80 calories. The higher the proof, the more calories there will be per glass. Remember wine does not contain fats and has only a trace amount of protein.

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Look for wines with resveratrol. Reducing the caloric intake of wine does not mean smaller portions are necessary. Stay in the red family to enjoy the benefits of cholesterol-reducing resveratrol. There is a simple formula to determine calories in a glass. A x O x 1.6 or alcohol content times the ounces drunk times 1.6.

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Enjoy wine for carbohydrate diets. A carbohydrate dieter can enjoy wine with a meal too. All wines have residual sugar content, as fermented products do. Sugar equals carbohydrates, and wines rarely list this information on a label. Carbohydrates can range from a low of .5 grams to over 4.2 grams per serving. The lower numbers can be found in dry white and red wines.