Comments on: Alcohol and Survival in Italian Rural Cohorts

By: Grasspunk

Grasspunk — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 06:54:22 +0000

The original article measures in grams, so you get results like this and this. There's quite a range there, but the 49-84 gram range is the high point for a moderate activity non-smoker in those two charts. The local vin the table is 71g alcohol per bottle which is just above the middle of the range. Like I say, I'm having trouble getting there. [Note that light activity people in this study lived longer if they drank 85-120g of alcohol!] Part of the humor is that this is the Seven Country study used by Ancel Keys to attack fat, but he could have used it to promote wine drinking for office workers.

By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:50:55 +0000

How many glasses of wine are in a bottle?

If you answered 4-5, continue reading. Because guess what? Apparently the answer is eight.

I.e. two drinks is approximately one glass. Probably. The definition might have changed in the last eight years.

By: Lucklucky

Lucklucky — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 00:03:03 +0000

Hard? I don’t see the problem with two glasses at lunch or three if heavy in meat, two at dinner, and a Port or a Martini somewhere.

By: Grasspunk

Grasspunk — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 22:05:55 +0000

Armagnac in your coffee maybe, but is it the alcohol or the wine?

They’ll kick me out of the paysan‘s union.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 21:05:47 +0000

You need to start your day with the breakfast of champions!

By: Grasspunk

Grasspunk — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:49:38 +0000

It’s really hard work drinking five glasses a day. You have to get two in at lunch, two at dinner and then where do you sneak in the fifth?