March 8 2010
The joke goes, “Wine is good for everything, including curing cancer” and there’s a shred of truth to it with the pile of medical research that would cast wine as a magical elixir ala snake oil circa 1850.
For all of the virtuous health benefits that wine has been purported to promote, one distinct aspect has been missing – an appeal to the now-now, of-the-moment narcissism in all of us. We all have a desire for preventative medicine, but we’re also interested in vanity, today.
With interest then do I read a recent and vast research study that concluded that drinking wine may prevent obesity in women. The study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, indicates:
19,220 American women aged 39 or older with a healthy body weight (were asked) to describe their drinking habits in a questionnaire. About 38% drank no alcohol.
Over the next 13 years the researchers found that all the women tended to gain weight but the non-drinkers gained the most. The women’s overall weight gain decreased as alcohol intake increased.
There was also a difference according to the type of alcohol: red wine was associated with the lowest weight gain; beer and spirits were linked to the highest weight gain.
Now, you take the above coupled with the notion that red wine can aid digestion, and you’re getting to something that everybody can get down with – indulgence and waistline.
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Thanks for sharing the information. I shall have a few glass of red wine tonight then. 
Hi Eryn,
thanks for commenting. I watched you on The Winemakers—not enough screen time for you, in my opinion. Seemed like a Ross love affair from the get-go.
Jeff
Thanks Jeff,
Yeah, I think they had to cut out a lot of my cursing and frothing at the mouth. hahahaha
I am excitedly surprised by how many people got to watch the show…I just hope you were entertained!
It was wicked fun though and I still keep in touch with many of the “others”.
I just bet season 2 will be much better since they know what they are doing now!
Cheers
eryn
Jeff,
The likely reason for the study results is the failure to adjust for income. There is a well-studied inverse relationship in the United States between income and obesity, and wine drinkers tend to have higher incomes.
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Just imagine the weight decline and “aid” in digestion when us women decide to drink a bottle of wine with dinner and then “purge” it…Double the pleasure, double the fun!