Beer or Wine Drinkers: Who's Healthier?

Wine Fans Win, But It May Be Due to Their Eating Habits, Not the Drink Itself

By JOY VICTORY

I prefer wine to beer. Heather Foster is downing water I think.  I never serve red wine during a party since I hate to clean big dark carpet stains.  Jan. 19, 2006 — Wine drinkers have long been known to have lower rates of heart disease. But do the health benefits of wine come from the wine itself? Or are wine drinkers just healthy eaters in general? This mystery has led many nutrition researchers to take apart and analyze the chemicals in the grape and its fermented fluid in hopes of uncovering a molecule that might answer that question.

According to a study in today's issue of the British Medical Journal, wine drinkers tend to buy more olives, fruit, vegetables, poultry, cooking oil, low-fat cheese, milk and meat than beer buyers. Beer drinkers purchased more premade meals, sugar, cold cuts, pork, butter, sausages and soft drinks. The purchases, made at 98 different supermarkets in Denmark, "support findings from the United States, Denmark and France showing that wine drinkers tend to eat fruit, vegetables and fish, and use cooking oil more often and saturated fat less often than those who prefer other alcoholic drinks," the authors state in the report.

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Comments

[Tanuki]

Lori, what is your favorite red wine?

[Lori Victoria Braun]

I like medium to dry red wines. I always try new ones. Red wine is very healthy.

[REd_Red_wine]

Wine drinkers are deff more healthy, there is a substance in red wine that has been extracted, and made the life expentency of animals tested increase significantly. Reserveratrol is the name of the substance, and it has the most promisssing anit-ageing properties to date.