Thursday, August 21, 2008

Notes: Wine, alcohol, and you

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* Wine is not for everyone. Certain medical conditions are worsened by the consumption of wine.

* Next to caffeine, alcohol is the most abused legal drug of choice for people wishing to alter their energy level and their mood.

* Drinking alcohol might be fine in moderation, but the fact is, alcohol has a very narrow therapeutic window.

* People with medical and social conditions worsened by alcohol should not consume any alcohol at all.

* Binge drinking is more responsible for beer bellies than beer itself. Therefore, the unhealthy beer belly, or ‘beer gut’, might be better known as a ‘binge belly.’

* In Spain, the first bottles of a white wine that is almost alcohol-free went on sale this month (August 2008). It is made from the Muscat grape, using a spinning cone that extracts the alcohol from wine and reduces the alcohol content to 0.5%.

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