Is there a health benefit to marijuana similar to wine’s French paradox? This blog discusses similarities and differences between wine and weed.
Author: healthywine
How under-reporting undermines credibility of alcohol-cancer studies
How studies on alcohol and cancer are skewed by under-reporting by heavy drinkers as moderate
Wine, cheese, and the French Paradox in Walla Walla
I enjoyed participating in the recent Wine BloggersConference in Walla Walla, where I gave a talk on wine and health, and I have been looking for a way to tie it all together. Since I write about wine and health, I’m in a niche slot. I don’t review wines, like most bloggers at the conference,…
Why can some people drink only European wines? It’s probably not what you think.
Who doesn’t know someone who swears they can drink wines when they are in Europe but has a reaction to wine back home? Theories abound as to why this occurs, but none of them completely explains the problem. Suspect sulfites? Maybe, but that is almost certainly not the issue for most. Pesticides possibly? A tasting…
A single drink a day unsafe? Not so simple.
I wanted this blog to be about the healthy role of wine in everyday life that I observed on my trip to Austria and Hungary last week, not the latest salvo against alcohol from another big study. It’s getting tiresome seeing an important issue being muddled in the search for clarity, and I don’t like…
