>Jake, I've been saying that here for years. However, this isn't a great paper: it's an association, not a causation, and drinking a few glasses of wine usually is associated with a certain level of affluence and lifestyle that itself goes along with quality of life. The paper doesn't match your disclaimers ;-) but it is making a bigger deal than it should about an association.
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>If you say "red" wine and 1-2 glasses/day, then I think there is more than just an association with cardiac disease which is *the* striker-down of men and now women in the US. But not everybody agrees about that, either- e.g. there are papers saying that there's an increased risk of breast cancer in red-wine-drinking women and other papers claiming red wine has nothing to do with it.


>Needless to say, with my lay interest in red wine I am expert at noticing papers that suit me while maintaining a portfolio of junk science to shoot down the others. ;-)

Until this last sentence I was wondering if you got me at all. ;)