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A bottle a day cuts heart disease risk, study says
November 20, 2009
By John Abbott
Drinking up to a bottle a wine a day can cut the risk of heart disease, says a controversial new study.
The research, published in the journal Heart, found that the risk of coronary heart disease, or CHD, decreases as alcohol consumption increases.
Dr. Larraitz Arriola, author of the study, found that drinking up to 11 units - or a bottle of red wine - reduced the risk of developing heart disease by 50%.
The study was conducted in Spain, which has one of the lowest death rates from coronary heart disease.
This is not the first time medical practicioners have openly promoted the benefits of red wine.
In 2003, Dr William McCrea of the Great Western Hospital in Swindon hit the headlines after admitting prescribing two glasses of Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon a day to 400 cardiac patients for two years.
Professor Alan Maryon-Davis, president of the UK Faculty of Public Health, warned people not to see this latest research as an excuse to binge drink.
'At the end of the day, you're juggling different risks and benefits, maybe helping your heart or maybe damaging your brain and liver.
'The simple message is moderation.'
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 Whoever printed this article has rocks for brains, since most of the wino's of the world are not going to read past the headline or first sentence and they are not going to get to the part about moderation....
Sending the wrong message...as most alcoholic's & wino's are going to read only "a bottle a day" and figure that this applies to Boones Farm, Ripple & all the other cheap wines and from what I understand about the study, it is the components of "red wine" that are making the difference if there is any actual benefit to the heart from wine consumption...so the cheap non-red wines are not going to help in any way...
Just like everything else in print, there are many people who are now going to hang their hat on this article & study and use it to justify their drinking & will not think about the "moderation" part of the article.
And even some idiots will probably think that if 1 bottle will reduce the developing of heart disease by 50%, then 2 bottles will reduce it by 100%...DUH!
Boy did you open up a can of worms with this stupid article...
My husband has been in the alcohol beverage industry for 50 years as a supporter of .08 legislation and is the Executive Director/Legislative Liaison of the Beverage Retailers Alliance of Illinois (BRAI) along with being an Advertising/Marketing Consultant for retailers & I have no doubt that he will think that this article is just another move in the wrong direction as far as what it represents for the industry.
In other words - another black eye for the alcohol beverage industry, since they will wind up taking the fall for this stupidity when some idiots are out there consuming too much wine & wind up causing more innocent deaths as a result. "Twitter this." Laura Rosen
Mrs. Rosen, WOW! I suggest it time for you and your husband to retire from the alcohol industry ... it seems to be causing some unnecessary stress as revealed in your recent response. I would like to believe that few alcoholics or winos read Decanter Magazine. Rather, we are a bunch of wine and spirit geeks who wouldn't have ours noses stuck in a wine magazine if we were drunk all of the time. I think that is great news that the medical community is finding more and more evidence that supports the previous claims that wine is beneficial to your health; and not just one glass of wine!
Everyone can pretty much agree that moderation is the key to many of life's dilemmas. Lady, take a chill pill and drink yourself a bottle of wine! Why don't you use your time to harp on people for drinking coca cola .... a can of that is much worse for your body than a bottle of wine!
The French consume, on average, a diet very high in saturated fats, but consume a fair amount of alcohol, and are much healthier than those of us from the U.S. The Mexicans drink tequila on a daily basis for their health. The Spanish, the Greek, the Italians .... many around the globe have demonstrated that wine plays a very important role in their "healthy lifestyles." We have heard this time and time again. Check out the "60 Minutes" video called the "French Paradox," aired over a decade ago, and claims in so many words that alcohol cuts through fat build up in our arteries.
Stricter laws and higher taxes on alcohol, as well as censored speech, will never solve the problem of alcoholism. It is a mental disease - a chemical imbalance. There are also mental diseases such as bulimia in which one will gorge themselves with food and then purge themselves of it. Should we scrutinize all the food commercials and marketing our eyes witness everyday. Certainly not! Food is not the cause of the problem! Wine does not create alcoholics!
So, cheers to the good news .... cheers to the glorious juice of the gods called WINE! Lauren Holbrook, Austin, TX
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