Archive for the ‘health’ Category
On This Day is Published a Paper That Will Lead to Less Natural Winemaking
November 18th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Italian scientists working at the University of Southern Denmark (team mascot: The Fighting Coffee Tables) have uncovered something immensely complicated that may decrease the “red wine gives me a headache” complaint that I, personally, get tired of hearing. Scientists have identified the mysterious allergen in wine that causes headaches, stuffy noses, skin rash and other [...]
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Wine In a Healthy Vein
October 12th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
A smallish study at the Veterans General Hospital in Taipei indicates that moderate red wine consumption spurs the growth of endothelial progenitor cells (EPC), which repair damage to veins and arteries. In the study, 80 healthy adult volunteers aged 20 to 40 were divided into four groups, with three groups consuming different alcoholic beverages in [...]
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I Think We Need a Study On the Effects of Confusion on Pregnant Women
October 6th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Because Rule #1 is that science should never make an actual decision about what’s good for you and what isn’t, further evidence that pregnant women either should or should not drink: Pregnant women who have one or two drinks a week don’t harm their children, a study found. Five-year-old children born to light drinkers showed [...]
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Blah Blah Blah Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Blah Blah
September 28th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Blair Campbell writes a nice piece for the East Bay Express about drinking wine while pregnant: From the moment I got the definitive “you’re pregnant” on New Year’s Day 2009 (causing me to ruefully ditch my Bloody Mary), the question of whether and how much I could drink was the background noise I heard for [...]
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Let Us Raise a Monument to Dr. Aditya Mattoo
August 26th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
A physician who has earned the nickname “Dr. Buzzkill” for advising his patients “don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t do drugs, don’t eat fatty foods, exercise more, and lose weight” takes a hard look at the data on moderate alcohol consumption and concludes: Although detractors often complain that the data is largely based on patients answering questionnaires reliably, [...]
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It Isn’t All Good News
August 24th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Women who drink are more likely to get breast cancer. This would appear to confirm an earlier British study indicating that women who get breast cancer are more likely to re-develop the disease if they drink.
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Wine Makes You Smarter
August 18th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Well, sort of.
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Wine and Sex Correlation Explained, Perhaps
August 17th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
A few months ago, Italian researchers determined that women who drink wine have more sex. Perhaps this is why: women who drink wine are less likely than women who drink beer to develop horrifying skin lesions.
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This Week in Health
July 6th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Wine can prevent blindness. Wine mitigates the pre-diabetic condition impaired fasting glucose.
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How Red Wine Prevents Cancer
June 11th, 2010 by Tom Johnson
Studies have long shown that red wine reduces the incidence of cancer. Scientists zeroed-in on resveratrol as the active ingredient in wine, without understanding how the anti-oxidant worked. Now a study conducted jointly in Japan and France has apparently figured out the mechanics of how red wine prevents cancer: The answer appears to lie in [...]
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