[ale] OT (way out there): switching from beer to wine....

[Charles Shapiro]

Better watch out about studies like these. Wine drinking may be
associated with lower rates of dementia. That does not mean that it
causes those lowered rates, as the story itself hints. The real cause
may well have little to do with anything in the wine itself.

Two crucial words missing from this report:

controlled study

That means a study which has a matched control group, so you can
actually verify that the one factor you're varying between the two
groups is the factor causing your observed result.

-- CHS


On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:20, John Wells wrote:
> Stories like this
> (http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/conditions/11/11/wine.dementia.reut/index.html)
>  make me think hard about giving up beer and switching to wine.  After
> all, a man can't take any chances when it comes to his thinking cap.
> 
> <AA FLAME BAIT>Yes, I enjoy beer on a weekly basis</AA FLAME BAIT> with
> varying frequency, but have also enjoyed wine in the past and would
> consider trying the admittedly difficult departure from my good friend
> beer.
> 
> However, I'm no wine expert by any means, and really don't know how to
> identify a wine that provides at least some quality for costs that
> approach beer's affordabilty.  I enjoy both white and red wines and would
> like to find a reasonably affordable, palatable, non-gut-rotting vintage
> in each.
> 
> Any wine connoisseurs on the list?  Can you point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
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