Half galss of wine per day adds 5 years of life over teetotallers

[steven johnson]

Here's more evidence the mediterranean diet may be unique in it's health benefits.

Men who drink less than half a glass of wine a day may live up to five years longer than teetotallers, and could have less chance of a heart attack, a study has found.

An analysis of the impact of alcohol on men's health by a team at Wageningen University in the Netherlands found that long-term light consumption - less than 20 grams daily - is more beneficial than being teetotal. Although the findings are not the first to link a moderate intake of alcohol with certain health benefits, the study is the first to examine the effects of different drinks, claiming that wine is much healthier than beer or spirits.
They also found that men who drank only wine, and less than half a glass a day, lived for about two and a half years longer than those who drank beer or spirits, and almost five years more than teetotallers.

The researchers say: "Long-term wine consumers had about five years longer life expectancy at age 50 compared with non-alcohol users. Of these five years, about two years can be attributed to an effect of alcohol intake. The remaining three years can be attributed to an effect of wine consumption." For the study, 70% of the wine consumed was red. The researchers add: "This suggests that the cardioprotective effect of wine could be due to a protective effect of polyphenolic compounds in red wine, but other explanations cannot be ruled out." In the UK, 720m bottles of red wine were consumed last year, compared with 764 million bottles of white and 150 million of rosé.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/apr/30/alcohol-life-expectancy-live-longer

[HeresyLives]

1. So a full glass a day gives you 10 extra years.

And 2 full glasses a day gives you.......

[nilram]

9. woo-hoo!

I'm gonna live forever!

[imdjh]

2. We go through this every year

I think the wine industry has some tipplers on the payroll of the national academies.

a- It's meaningless, because no one drinks a half glass of wine, per day or otherwise

b- it can't possibly control for all other factors, like the possibility that teetotalers are harder working or have already done much damage to their bodies when they were falling down drunks prior to quitting entirely.

[Mz Pip]

3. A half of glass of wine...

How big is the glass??? :rofl:

[aquart]

4. It kills you, it helps you, it kills you, it helps you, it kills you, it helps you....

Remember the Woody Allen movie of the future, where it had been discovered that chocolate and french fries were health foods?

Well, as of today, which vindicated fatty food (fry that french fry in olive oil), IT'S TRUE.

So, as soon as my gut bug is gone, I will lift a glass of Trader Joe's Cabernet Sauvignon and toast health food.

[Hissyspit]

10. "Sleeper" (1973)

[aquart]

15. Thank you!

It was on the tip of some part of my anatomy.

[doc03]

5. There must be some truth in that

our village wino consumed a couple bottles of Gibson's Port every day and he lived into his nineties.:beer:

[Liberty Belle]

6. I'll drink to that!

[Why Syzygy]

7. How many Mediterraneans drink 1/2 glass?

Don't think so. Unless that's 1/2 glass every 1/2 hour.

[Dogmudgeon]

8. Is that a half-empty glass of wine, or a half-full glass of wine?

If it's a two-tailed test, it matters!

--d!
Does this make me half-assed, or single-buttocked?

[sam sarrha]

12. if you're an alcoholic the glass is always soon just .."Empty", and you start chug'n out the bottle

:toast: :beer:

[sam sarrha]

11. they dont know much about tea .. or alcoholism..

[Hardrada]

13. One glass is too many and a thousand is not enough.

[sam sarrha]

16. i was 10 years sober last Valentines day... google 'health benefits tea'

[Hardrada]

18. Good for you! I just quit dead stop in 1983. Just on my own.

I decided that I had had enough and needed to leave some for other people!

[Cronus Protagonist]

14. I'm thinking, if alcohol, a poison, does that, what does CANNABIS do?

We already know it makes out lives more fun, more pain free and just plain better. Maybe Cannabis makes our lives longer too?!

[sam sarrha]

17. what... Bills not here..!