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Not so bad after all Raise a glass
SCIENTIFIC researchers in Canada recently announced that women could safely indulge in a large glass of wine a day.
On average this would not “significantly” increase the risk of death, they said.
Another gender gap
AN A&E doctor who sees roughly 26,000 patients a year said that malecentric medicine put women at a disadvantage.
ULTRAPROCESSED food bad for us, we all know that.
They are increasingly linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes and are regarded as a cancer risk, but a leading nutritionist recently defended five ultra processed foods.
Talking to the UK media recently, Professor Gunter Kuhnle, an expert in nutrition at the University of Reading, described the ultraprocessed food label as
“vague” and pointed out that it painted food that was basically “fine” as “unhealthy.”
Massproduced supermarket bread, fish fingers, baked beans, breakfast cereal when not sugarladen and baby formula, are all ultraprocessed as they usually have five or more ingredients and are present in most UK diets.
“There is no reason to assume they are all unhealthy,” Professor Kuhnle said.
For men, this could increase to two large glasses, they said, after reviewing 107 studies that covered more than 4.8 million people.
The investigators compared the odds of dying among nondrinkers to the odds for drinkers with low, medium, high or very high alcohol consumption.
Females who drank moderately and fell into the low alcohol consumption group, were found to have no significant increase in their risk of death compared to female nondrinkers. These women drank less than 25 grammes of alcohol a day, the equivalent of one large glass of wine, or three small measures of gin.
DAILY TIPPLE: Perhaps not so bad as previously thought.
