Enjoy 3 Glasses of Wine a Day? This 29-Year Study Says You Might Live Till You’re 85.
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek.
Let’s start with a disclosure. I like a glass of wine.
Please, therefore, forgive any bias as I outline this new piece of research that might make one or two people, well, reach for a glass of wine.
I’ll start with the academic language, as uttered by Linda McEvoy, an associate professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
“This study is unique because we considered men and women’s cognitive health at late age and found that alcohol consumption is not only associated with reduced mortality, but with greater chances of remaining cognitively healthy into older age,” she said.
A tempting translation might be: “You know, if you drink up to three glasses of wine a day you might just live longer and not develop dementia.” READ MORE…