Liver disease is decreasing during a period of increasing wine consumption and decreasing spirits consumption. Everyone knows that cirrhosis is a very serious liver ailment. Chronic alcoholism is its number one cause. This appears to be following the reduction in consumption of spirits. I must conclude, changing people's drinking habits over to wine is saving lives, here as well as in cardiac deaths.
Red wine contains anti-cancer compounds.
The components thought to be responsible for this are antioxidant compounds. At least 25 antioxidant compounds have been discovered in wine, especially red wine. The most famous of these is resveratrol. Bones are more dense in both men and women with moderate wine consumption. After menopause, osteoporosis becomes a very serious problem in women.