Integrating Wine Into Your Life
Written By: Brian Freedman on Fri, Aug 21st 2009
Is there any task more rewarding or fun than trying to integrate more wine into your life? Really, now: It's not like trying to integrate, say, more bench-presses, or more foot-callus scrubbings. This is wine! It shouldn't really be work.
And despite the ease with which you can make it play a more prominent role in your life, there are tremendous benefits to doing so. Who ever said no pain, no gain?
Drinking wine more frequently with meals is the first step: The so-called French Paradox - that supposedly weird confluence of events by which Frenchmen drink more wine and eat more butter and end up living longer than more health-obsessed Americans - is all about balance and pleasure. Balance in terms of consuming meat, fish, fats, proteins, fruits, and vegetables in moderation and at meals that are leisurely and enjoyable (as opposed to scarfing down a Happy Meal in the car on the way home from the gym); and pleasure in terms of worrying less about your food and how it might kill you one day, and more about how it tastes and acts as a conduit to quality time with family and friends.
A glass of wine before bed isn't a bad idea either. Or with lunch on the weekends. Or hooked up to an IV by your bed so that you can get a constant flow of it intravenously. (Well, maybe not) The point is this: Wine can help you lead a healthier and more pleasurable life. How can that be a bad thing?
