Following up on our
question: Which comes first -- Does
drinking red wine make you healthier?
Or do healthier people tend to drink red
wine?
We site a recent report
from a University of North Carolina long-term
study of over 5,000 middle-aged, affluent,
well-educated men and women. The study
found that those individuals who drank
wine generally led a healthier lifestyle
– they exercised more, consumed less
saturated fat, and smoked less –
than those who preferred beer or spirits,
or abstained completely.
On the other hand, researchers
suggested that the concurrent poor diet
and lifestyle patterns might explain higher
rates of mortality and cardiovascular
problems among the non-wine drinkers,
whose factors included lower intake of
fruits and vegetables, higher intake of
red meat, and more smoking.
In other words, choosing
wine over other or no alcoholic beverages,
may be part of an overall lifestyle pattern
that then leads to better health. And
healthier people tend to choose wine.
Chicken. Egg. Chicken. Egg.
Chicken. Egg…
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