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

Drinking Red Wine is Exactly Like Exercising

The Mayo clinic recently performed a Study where they hung up some rats by their back legs & then injected them with stuff to see what would happen.  Some of the stuff was stuff you can find in red wine, other stuff was not.  The rats given the red wine stuff did better out of the deal.  It was as if they'd been exercising instead of having been clamped by a bunch of scientist types.  Hence the optimistic claim in the news feed below that red wine is 'exercise in a bottle'.  Wow - what a world that would be!  I think we all want this to be true whilst knowing full well that it isn't.  I don't care how buff the wine ingredient drinking rats were, sitting on my sofa guzzling Merlot is just not going to give me those defined abs I'm after.

Source:  CBS News

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.  

Wine. This week it's Bad for you.

Yes, that's right.  A glass of wine a day is now bad for you again, after being good for you for a couple of years.  *sigh* It was good while it lasted.  Now Oxford University tells us that we need to cut down from a glass of wine a day to 'half a small glass of wine'.  Let's face it, that's not going to happen is it.  Who is going to settle down of an evening on the couch, crack open a bottle of Merlot, and pour themselves 'half a small glass' when they sit down in front of the repeat of 'Desperate Housewives'.  Unlikely.




Source:  UK Independent