Can't say I've ever heard of UK magazine The Economic Voice before, but this week it's on my must-read list because it has just reported that drinking wine doesn't make women fat.
Hoo-rah. Someone please tell the Weight Watchers folk because I'm sick of having to strike off two bloody points
every time I down a piffling 185ml.
A story by Jeff Taylor in the EV said research had found that not only was drinking red wine beneficial to the heart, lungs and arteries, the calories it contained might actually be burned off by the liver in the form of heat - not added fat.
Lu Wang, MD, PhD of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, said he had found after doing a survey of the drinking habits of more than 19,000 healthy-weighted women over 13 years that the 38 per cent of participants who were teetotallers gained the most weight.
Wang's findings also showed that it appeared the more women drank the less weight they gained, with red wine drinkers faring the best. Last, but not least, the report also said that there was no clear connection between weight gain and alcohol consumption. Can I have a hallelujah?
