[ale] OT (way out there): switching from beer to wine....

[Kilroy, Chris]

certainly you should always take this sort of thing with some skepticism.


but there was a control group in this study:
"People who had just a glass of wine a day had a lower risk of dementia than people who drank no wine at all,"Â  


the people who drank no wine are the control.


this was published in a respected peer-reviewed journal,  and news articles often don't represent scientific papers with the degree of accuracy that one would always prefer, no doubt about it.

correlation is not causation of course.  


This article is by no means proof that red wine consumption will lead to the preservation of cognitive function over the course of an individual's life.  But there is a growing body of knowledge that does strongly suggest a variety of benefits to moderate consumption of red wine,  protection from LDL oxidation and artherosclerosis for instance.

skepticism is always good though when it comes to analyzing scientific findings!  =)




 
->
->Better watch out about studies like these. Wine drinking may be
->associated with lower rates of dementia. That does not mean that it
->causes those lowered rates, as the story itself hints. The real cause
->may well have little to do with anything in the wine itself.
->
->Two crucial words missing from this report:
->
->controlled study
->
->That means a study which has a matched control group, so you can
->actually verify that the one factor you're varying between the two
->groups is the factor causing your observed result.
->
->-- CHS
->
->
->On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:20, John Wells wrote:
->> Stories like this
->> 
->(http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/conditions/11/11/wine.dementia
.reut/index.html)
>  make me think hard about giving up beer and switching to wine.  After
> all, a man can't take any chances when it comes to his thinking cap.
> 
> <AA FLAME BAIT>Yes, I enjoy beer on a weekly basis</AA FLAME BAIT> with
> varying frequency, but have also enjoyed wine in the past and would
> consider trying the admittedly difficult departure from my good friend
> beer.
> 
> However, I'm no wine expert by any means, and really don't know how to
> identify a wine that provides at least some quality for costs that
> approach beer's affordabilty.  I enjoy both white and red wines and would
> like to find a reasonably affordable, palatable, non-gut-rotting vintage
> in each.
> 
> Any wine connoisseurs on the list?  Can you point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
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