Too Good To Be True.
Hey,
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Did you have a few drinks at the weekend. I often do.
Are you feeling guilty about it!
Are you ladies afraid that necking down a regular glass of wine will make you gain weight!
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Well, according to a report recently published in America, there is no proven connection between alcohol consumption and weight gain.
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They say that the livers of regular moderate alcohol drinkers develop a new metabolic pathway to deal with the breaking down of alcohol, where it is mostly turned into heat, as opposed to storing it as fat.
This means that you have less weight gain from alcohol calories than you do from calories in other foods.
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These findings were discovered when academics at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, Boston, asked over 19,000 non obese women over 39 for details of their alcohol consumption and continued to monitor them during the following 13 years.
About a third of the women questioned did not drink alcohol at all.
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Although all of the women showed a tendency to gain weight, it turned out to be the non drinkers who gained the most.
It also seemed that as overall alcohol consumption increased there was a decrease in weight gain.
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It also seemed that the type of alcohol consumed made a difference to the amount of weight gained.
Red wine seemed to be the least fattening, while spirits and beers were more so.
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Therefore this new research, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, would seem to suggest that women who unwind with a glass of wine after a hard day will be less likely to gain weight than those teetotallers who have a bottle of mineral water..
Moderate drinkers would appear to have less tendency to obesity than non drinkers.
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If this seems to be too good to be true….here is a link.
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While we are on the subject of a nice glass of white, there is something going very wrong with French wine.
The wine makers in France are being accused of a cover-up!
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All white wine oxidises eventually, but many fine burgundy ‘grand cru’ vintages are now being found to be just about undrinkable at the very time that they should have been at their best.
Some of the finest wines, such as Montrachet and Meursault, are the worst affected ones.
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This problem has been happening since the 1995 vintage.
No one is quite sure of the cause although global warming, poor quality corks, and changes in production methods, and I would personally guess even black magic, have all been suggested.
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This would suggest that laying down expensive wines as an investment may not be a good bet anymore.
Thank goodness Spar still have three for £10 offers on!
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So drink up and be merry, unless of course you have already laid down a cellar full of prestigious Burgundy since 1995!
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Have a good one.
Choose something good to do today.
LOL
Jaksie,x.
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