Red wine for your health!

Red wines are a great friend against the damage caused by strokes. Strokes are, in fact, caused from a blood rush to the brain due to an occlusion or a rupture of a cerebral vessel spasm, causing varying severity damage, depending on the person affected.
All red wines, drunk daily in small quantities, have beneficial effects on the heart, but it also reduces the damage caused by strokes. This important news has been discovered at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers.
American scientists have published an article on the prestigious scientific journal Experimental Neurology, the results of a study conducted on a mice sample. The rodents were divided into two groups. While on the first group was administered a dose of red wine after a meal, on the other group were not given anything.
Then researchers have induced ischemic stroke in mice, noting that the first group of mice had less damage, with a lower percentage of 40%. It was discovered that red wines, with raspberries, blueberries, peanuts and red grape skins and seeds are rich in resveratrol. This enzyme increases the level of heme oxygenase that reinforces the brain cells protection.
So a glass of good red wine taken regularly after meals is good for health!
It has known that Italian red wine is the best in the world, thanks to the modern technology you can buy Italian wine online!

Shine with the olive oil

The olive oil has many properties, even cosmetic. Do not think that the olive oil is only a good ally in delicious kitchen recipes, but this liquid gold is also a beauty friend.
In the past, when large cosmetic brands did not exist, only natural ingredients were used in the preparation of cosmetic, sensitive and effective recipes.
This is an old recipe for a timeless beauty, created just by the Queen Anne of England in 1700 to make silky, soft and shiny hair. If you have blond hair, add a little lemon juice; your hair will shine!


Balm with honey and olive oil
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons of liquid honey
½ teaspoon of vanilla extract

Before to apply the balm wash the hair and blotted them with a towel, then proceed to mix all ingredients. It is important to mix the ingredients after the shampoo, otherwise they will separate again.
Once prepared the balm, spread evenly on hair, cover your head with a headset and switch the hairdryer for a couple of minutes. Hold still on for about fifteen minutes and then rinse the hair with a little bit of shampoo.

Italian Oil Festival

The First Edition of the Italian Oil Festival will be held from 7 to 9 May in the town of Ponte, province of Benevento in Campania, with the intention to consolidate and spread the cultivation of olive, part of the history of Italy. The initiative, sponsored by Department of Agriculture and Tourism, provides conferences, tasting, discovery of ancient traditions, recreation, music and culinary. So it's a way to highlight the importance of olive oil that has increasingly assumed since antiquity, thanks to its nutritional and healthful quality and because it’s the element that distinguishes the Mediterranean cuisine from around the world. The sale of olive oil is in fact growing and increasingly also came online>> buy olive oil

The first day is scheduled the conference "From Olive to Oil: The Plant-the Oil and opening of wine and food stan with guided tasting and musical entertainment; the second one, held the conference" Oil from Olive : The Health and combinations in the kitchen "; the third day, finally, there will be an exhibition and demonstration of the companies “Arcieri del Sannio”.
In addition the objective of the festival is to develop and promote the comparison about virgin olive oil.
Buy Italian oil and taste the quality

Olive oil benefits

Recent studies have shown that the right variety of foods may reduce the risk of cardio-vascular illness. Mediterranean diet foods, such as olive oil, cereals and fruits are essential to the hearth illness preservation.
According to the study of a Spanish university in Cordoba, phenols, micronutrients in which is rich the extravirgin Italian olive oil, have the ability to counteract the genes responsible for body inflammatory processes, contributing thereby to a sort of prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Professor Francisco Perez-Jimenez, head of the researchers team, conducted a study on a sample of twenty patients with metabolic syndrome, also said as insulin resistance syndrome. This special clinical condition carries a high cardiovascular risk, linked to a range of risk factors closely related to a sedentary lifestyle or pathological conditions such as obesity or high levels of blood cholesterol.
To twenty volunteers were asked to make a breakfast rich in extra virgin olive oil, removing for six weeks all medicines and vitamins.
At the end of the experiment, have been identified 98 different genes which engage in greater or lesser extent on the amount of phenol employed.
In addition to the goodness and wholesomeness this is another reason to enjoy the Italian extra-virgin olive oil!

Wine weirdness

From Sweden the latest news regarding wine containers. Enough with the usual 0.75 litre bottles, half bottles, now there is the Milestone, comfortable bag with handles and tapper whit the ability of 3 or 5 litres.
This bag is designed on the basis of in-box-bag, without, of course, the box, but there is this special bag that decreases in volume, when the wine has drawn off. Proposed for group tours and wine tourism tour, does this Swedish new like to Italians?
Sure, it has the advantage of not breaking easily, but between a Milestone and a wine in magnum do you want to put the pleasure of uncorking a nice bottle of the best Italian wine to share with joy?
Among the latest news there is the special 3D label proposed by the biological firm Conegliano Valdobbiadene, created for the launch of the wine in magnum DOCG Prosecco of Valdobbiadene. This label can be read only with the special 3D glasses. A simple and innovative idea, useful to make everyone understand the difference between a DOC and DOCG wine.
In any case, to drink in company the best Italian wine there is nothing better then a wine in magnum.

The sweet side of the olive oil

The extra virgin olive oil is healthy and tasty oil. The 'liquid gold "is in fact rich in polyphenols, vitamins and carotenoids. It protects against free radicals and aging skin, decreasing the level of blood cholesterol and aiding the digestion.
Contrary to popular thinking, it is not a calorific food, a teaspoon contains only 90 calories!
Extra virgin olive oil is used in the preparation of savory food but it is also irreplaceable in cakes recipes, giving it softness and crispness extra touch. It is an excellent substitute for the butter!

Extra virgin Olive Oil cake

Ingredients:
3 eggs
250g. sugar
250g. flour
1 cup of yogurt
1 packet of baking powder
1 peel lemon grated
Fill the jar of yogurt to ¾ of extra virgin olive oil

Procedure:
Beat the eggs with the sugar and with the grated lemon. When these are well blended add the yogurt, the extra virgin olive oil and the packet of baking powder.
Bake at 180 degrees in preheated oven for 30-35 minutes.

Still good news from Italian wines

Vinitaly, international exhibition of wines and spirits, has closed down its 44th edition with giddiness numbers: operators from foreign countries have increased their presence of the 4.4%, while the visitors have been in total 152,000. Also noteworthy is the presence of many foreign operators and the presence of President of Republic Giorgio Napolitano, who has reaffirmed the institutions interest in this expanding branch.
Vinitaly has been therefore a very good meeting point between demand and supply in the area of Italian wine selling, through, apart some cracks in the sales number due to the period of global crisis, promises a bright future. Wine experts delegates from Russia, the United States, Canada, Australia, Asia and Far East have visited, indeed, the Exposition.
Also noteworthy is the growth of online Italian wine selling, emerged during the meeting "Wine, Web and Social Networks: Opportunities and Responsibility", showing that social networks, blogs, twitter, Facebook and YouTube are the new frontiers of the marketing tools, being understood that the wine chain traceability is an added value.
The web is indeed a very direct marketing, simple and effective, through which the consumer has many information.
Vinitaly has also saw the presence of the famous French actor Gerard Depardieu, a great admirer of the "nectar of Bacchus" and testimonials of the Friuli Venezia Giulia pavillon. Then, after the pass that is produced in Pantelleria, the actor, sipping a delicious white wine, has declared that it intends to expand its business in the Friuli region.
Another small victory for Italy, after the overtaking of the local champagne on the emblazoned champagne, has seen a Frenchman promoting Italian wines!