Researchers say red wine reduces risk of Alzheimer's Disease - Beer doubles risk

AFP via Babelfish translation ^ | November 12, 2002

[Ditto]

I'm doomed.

Alzheimers??????? Is that when you forget where you set your last beer, so you just go get another one?

I think I may have it.

[Miss Marple]

Personally, I am following the drink of George Burns and the late Queen Mother.

Gin martinis, 2 every day. Worked great for them!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

OK, so that means I have to drink two glasses of red wine for every beer, just to stay even. I can live with that.

If I drank two glasses of red wind and a beer, I doubt if I'd notice the Babelfishy translation.

[N. Theknow]

Drink Beer...

And you can meet new friends everyday...sometimes two and three times a day.

And you can hide your own Easter eggs.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

or dirty bath water.

Who's in the shower? Seriesly?

[Mr. Silverback]

It might be the demographics of wine drinkers vs. beer drinkers causing the difference.

This was exactly my first thought upon reading the thread title. Unless they stringently controlled for lifestyle and demographic factors, this study is junk science with a capital JUNK.

[Aracelis]

Uh oh, some of us may be in trouble.

[San Jacinto]

Alzheimer's Disease - Beer doubles risk

Damn, I forgot what I was gonna say.

[vin-one]

oh, crap, wine gives me heart burn, and I love my beer.
I am going to , uh forgot what I was.....

[realpatriot71]

[ricpic]

I read somewhere, or saw somewhere (not enough red wine) that onions are loaded with flavonoides. Not as much fun, but a heck of a lot cheaper.

[riley1992]

What were we just talking about? Hahahaha

[Rockitz]

it is a study showing that there is something of specifically beneficial in the wine.

Bioflavonoids, baby!

[b4its2late]

"Certain results also show that the vitamin E can reduce the risks to develop the disease of Alzheimer. These factors were not taken into account in the study ", it added.

That's why I pop a vitamin E pill before I drink beer.

[shezza]

Break out the cabernet sauvignon...

[Dan from Michigan]

see post 22 :)

[Jaded]

One vitamiin E per beer or day? I wanna get the proportions correct for my health you know. Heck I'd better just have the red wine, don't have to remember the vitamins.

[PatrickHenry]

Uh oh, some of us may be in trouble

Not me. Gimme a ping when they publish a study on Scotch drinkers.

[b4its2late]

LOL! Go with the 1 E per day. That way if you drink beer your covered, and if you don't, you're still covered.....

[Snuffington]

I'm hedging my bet. I'm having as much beer, wine, and hard liquor as possible. That ought to reduce the risks of all sorts of things - as well as my capacity to worry about them.