Health

This one sounds like it’s too good to be true. A biochemist-turned-winemaker in Queensland, Australia, claims to have created wine that is beneficial to your health. For years winemakers and scientists have been trying to figure out how to truly reap the purported health benefits of wine. Greg Jardine, founder... Read More

Ladies, here’s one to raise a glass to! A recent Spanish study finds that women who drink wine or other alcoholic beverages in moderation experience depression in much smaller numbers than women who don’t drink alcohol. Men who drank and women who drank more than one or two beverages a... Read More

When it comes to unique life-saving techniques, the use of alcohol does not typically come to mind. But when Ronald Aldom from Portishead, England developed ventricular tachychardia (an unusual heart rhythm) doctors decided to treat it a little unconventionally. Doctors gave a shot of neat alcohol, or pure ethanol, via... Read More

Looking to shed some weight in this New Year? Here’s an additional incentive. A new study has found that moderate alcohol consumption may only be beneficial for your heart if you are thin. Scientists at Australia’s Curtin University have discovered that if you are overweight, rather than boosting your heart’s... Read More

In general, if you’ve been in an accident, alcohol is not what the doctor orders. However, new research shows that if you have an accident and there’s alcohol in your bloodstream, it just may boost your survival chances. According to a study from the University of Illinois at Chicago School... Read More

Cheers to this news! Red wine could be a major key to fighting prostate cancer. Researchers from the University of Missouri have discovered that it can make prostate tumor cells more susceptible to radiation treatment, increasing the chances of a full recovery from all types of prostate cancer, including aggressive... Read More

Forget milk!  This sounds like a much nicer way to help out the bones. A review team from the International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research has found that regular moderate intake of alcohol after menopause helped maintain bone strength.  The experts, who analyzed a study by the University of Oregon,... Read More

Ladies raise a glass for this news! A new study has found that women who consume moderate amounts of alcohol may reduce the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. The study of 34,141 Swedish women by the Stockholm-based Karolinska Institute found that women who regularly consume more than three alcoholic drinks... Read More

It’s hardly news that having a few drinks can make the stranger sitting at the bar look far more attractive than he or she actually is. The phenomenon known as “beer goggles” has indeed afflicted many an unsuspecting drinker. But apparently, it’s not just other people who appear better looking... Read More

Here’s something to look forward to as we age: A new study has found that middle-age people who drink in moderation – no more than 14 drinks a week and no more than three a day for women and four a day for men – have better overall health scores... Read More