Cider: It's Basically Just a Better Version of Apple Juice

Scientists from the world-renowned 'Brewing Research International' in Surrey have recently stated that cider is good for your health, as it is brimming over with antioxidants.  And everyone knows that antioxidants are good, even though nobody knows what antioxidants are exactly.

Doctor Walker says 'a glass of cider a day will keep the doctor away' (although she does preface that with 'it could well be claimed')

Regardless, the point is that cider is great and...

...what do you mean you're not sure if you trust the research of scientists from Brewing Research International?  Don't be so suspicious.

Anyway if you need more proof, here's a quote from John Thatcher (National Association of Cider Makers):  'I have spent a lifetime making cider... and now I can enjoy it all the more knowing that it is helping to keep me healthy.'

Case closed. 

Source: Daily Mail  

It's Bad for you NOT to Drink a Bottle of Wine a Day. Listen to the Doctor!

 A former WHO alcohol expert claims that knocking back a bottle of wine won't do you any harm at all.  In fact he goes on to say that after spending his life studying the effects of alcohol consumption, he reckons you will be healthier as a drinker than a teetotaler.

Say no more doc, you had me at "evidence shows moderate drinking is better than abstaining". 

Some busybody from a healthy living think tank responds that "this is an unhelpful contribution to... blah-blah-blah Something-Something I'm not listening"

Now where is that corkscrew?


Source:  UK Independent

Drink Booze and you won't have (another) Heart Attack!

Now go easy, Tiger.  Slamming back tequilas the week after invasive surgery is not the way to go.  But this latest report from the European Society of Cardiology does say that 'moderate drinkers', who have had one heart attack and continue to drink in moderate fashion afterwards, have less chance of suffering a second attack.  Not you though ladies, this was a men only survey.  And 'moderate drinking' means two bottles of beer or glasses of wine per day, so step away from the 12 pack of Coors.

Source:  Irish Independent

Booze Makes You Fat

The World Cancer Research Fund has teamed up with the British Liver Trust to have a pop at booze.  What has booze ever done to those guys?  The Cancer people are attacking from the angle that drinking alcohol adds more weight than you might imagine, while the Liver Trust add their two cents worth by claiming that a quarter of the (British) population may already have some type of liver damage.  

Don't Drink Alcohol. (Or Coffee, or Soda, even the Diet Version)

Because they are all bad for you, especially the alcohol.  Alcohol sucks B vitamins out of your body like a delightful hoover.  All you're left with is the shell.  Plus it makes you fat.  So do soft drinks.  And so do diet soft drinks because 'studies show they increase your desire for sweets'.  Now I haven't embarked on any studies myself, but might I suggest that the sweets thing is just fat people rewarding themselves for not glugging down a 2 litre bottle of regular Coke?The rather tedious dietician featured in this article (link below) also doesn't like coffee, but it's just a vague dislike, nothing you can hang your hat on.  I imagine all dieticians instinctively distrust coffee.  I also imagine that they do not make great road-trip buddies.

Source:  Chicago Tribune