“Wine is a food.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.” – Ernest Hemingway.
“What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?” – W.C. Fields
Wine … cheereth God and man. – Judges, 9:13
“By making this wine vine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.”
- Thomas Jefferson
Here’s looking at you, kid. – Humphrey Bogart, with a glass of Vive Clicquot, toasting Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca
Wine is the “healthiest and most health-giving of drinks.”
-Louis Pasteur
“You have only so many bottles in your life. Never drink a bad one.” - Len Evans
Likely, you think this is all a myth, this notion, this hearsay that wine is good for you. But we’re here to tell you that it’s not just mythic folklore…we have scientific proof that wine is nothing less than medicine in a bottle. Read on, O devoted oenophile…
Researchers who surveyed 12,000 men and women about their alcohol consumption found that the people who drank one glass daily of wine had a 50% lower risk of developing non-alchoholic fatty liver disease. This, according to a study published in Hepatalogy, a medical journal. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease can lead to liver scarring and cancer, notes Dr. Jeffrey Schwimmer, M.D. of the University of California, San Diego.
Rider: these beneficial side effects do not apply to beer or spirits consumption, just vino.
Furthermore, in Copenhagen, medical researchers conducted yet another study in which they determined, from among 490,000 test subjects, that…
“Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.” – Ernest Hemingway.
“What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?” – W.C. Fields
Wine … cheereth God and man. – Judges, 9:13
“By making this wine vine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.”
- Thomas Jefferson
Here’s looking at you, kid. – Humphrey Bogart, with a glass of Vive Clicquot, toasting Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca
Wine is the “healthiest and most health-giving of drinks.”
-Louis Pasteur
“You have only so many bottles in your life. Never drink a bad one.” - Len Evans
Likely, you think this is all a myth, this notion, this hearsay that wine is good for you. But we’re here to tell you that it’s not just mythic folklore…we have scientific proof that wine is nothing less than medicine in a bottle. Read on, O devoted oenophile…
Researchers who surveyed 12,000 men and women about their alcohol consumption found that the people who drank one glass daily of wine had a 50% lower risk of developing non-alchoholic fatty liver disease. This, according to a study published in Hepatalogy, a medical journal. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease can lead to liver scarring and cancer, notes Dr. Jeffrey Schwimmer, M.D. of the University of California, San Diego.
Rider: these beneficial side effects do not apply to beer or spirits consumption, just vino.
Furthermore, in Copenhagen, medical researchers conducted yet another study in which they determined, from among 490,000 test subjects, that…
…individuals who consumed one alcoholic drink daily had a decrease in mortality from all causes of 20% and cardiovascular-associated mortality of 30–40% compared with nondrinkers. In the Copenhagen City Heart Study, individuals who consumed between three and five drinks of wine daily had a decreased relative risk of death from all causes, including cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events, ofSo we here at Local Food And Wine say, go ahead, drink to your liver! drink to your heart! drink, of course, in moderation, and then write to us and tell us what wines you love and what you love to drink them with.50% compared with non-wine drinkers. READ MORE
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