Wine your way slim?

Having an active social life can make it very difficult or nearly impossible for any girl to follow a strict diet plan or cut out alcohol from her life in order to shed some pounds. Turns out a new research found that wine (yeah, wine!) can actually help you keep your weight in track! Naturally, you can't down a bottle of merlot and look like Gisele, but wine in moderation can bring some awesome perks to your waist line!

But HOW? We ask

Doctors said the evidence is impressive, in the study they monitored nearly 20,000.00 normal sized women for over 13 years. Over the years, the women who drank about two glasses of red wine were 30 percent less likely to be overweight than the ones not drinking at all or driking beer and other liquor. A New Yorker physician, Jana Klauer sais "Aside from other benefits, wine is rich in antioxidants that reduce cholesterol and blood pressure".

The main reason your daily red may contribute to a happy scale is that digesting vino activates your body to burn off calories. “Women make smaller amounts of the enzyme that metabolizes alcohol than men do, so to digest a drink, they have to keep producing it, which requires the body to burn energy,” says Dr. Klauer.

In a process called thermogenesis, your body's temperature rises, causing it to burn more calories to creat heat!

...Wait, there's more! 

In the same study, it was revealed that the women who drank also ate less. It is possible that we are more likely to slow down and savor our food when we have a glass of wine to enjoy it with!

Combining all of the factors resuting from the study, chugging down some wine could lead to eating fewer calories and burning more calories. But keep in mind that you shouldn't replace food with wine! “Drinking wine isn’t a weight-loss strategy on its own,” says Dr. Klauer. Overdoing it is linked to health risks you don’t want to take, like breast cancer. “But having a glass,” says Dr. Klauer, “along with a healthy diet and exercise, seems to be a marker for a healthier lifestyle.”

Hey, let's cheers to that!