X-Message-Number: 20320
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 04:36:16 -0700
From: James Swayze <>
Subject: Sticky beer bad Mother always said
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> Message #20316
> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:43:34 -0700
> Subject: Beer is better than wine
> From:  (Tim Freeman)
>
> This Yahoo story claims that beer drinking correlates positively with
> dementia in old age, and wine drinking correlates negatively.
> Correlation isn't causation, but in the absence of any better evidence
> it's prudent to prefer wine, since you don't want dementia.
>

> 
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=571&e=20&u=/nm/20021014/hl_nm/dementia_alcohol_dc
>


"Beer is better than wine"? Tim, don't you mean wine? :) The article points out 
something that brings
back memories for me of my mother's early warnings...


[begin quote] The study cannot prove that wine intake prevents dementia--some 
other lifestyle factor

could be responsible for the association. However, Truelsen explained in an 
interview that red wine

contains substances known as flavonoids, antioxidants that help protect blood 
vessels from harmful

substances called free radicals. Free radicals are naturally occurring particles
that have been linked

to Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia, a type of dementia that results 
from a reduction in the
supply of blood to the brain. [end quote]


...chiefly that last line. She always warned me not to drink beer because as she
put it, "Beer is

sticky and clogs the blood, sticking red blood cells together thus starving the 
brain of oxygen... the

high is partly anoxia". I don't know where she got her information from and it 
might be totally wrong

as to mechanisms but the above study would suggest the result predicted was spot
on. As a general rule

I don't drink. I'm not sure if it is due to my medications or my diabetes but 
even a few sips causes

me to get flushed and have referral pains that indicate a real bad gut ache. I 
have been able to have

a single beer (good for flushing the pipes) once in a great while with less of 
these symptoms but

wine, no way. I guess the beer's out of the question now to... oh well. It is a 
shame though that I

can't enjoy the flavonoids benefits of wine. Anyone aware of a non high calorie 
non carbohydrate/sugar
high in flavonoids substitute?

James
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