I love reading about the health benefits of wine, it actually makes you feel really good for drinking it – its like after you have been to the gym, you immediately feel like you have done something really good for your body.
Of course with alcohol there are the conceptions that it makes you ‘slow’ and not up to your normal ability, which is true of course when you drink a lot. Though wine drinkers have a chance to rejoice over those non-drinkers who slain our choice to enjoy a good glass or too.
A study in Norway done on 5033 people has proven that wine consumption is independently associated with better performance on cognitive tests. Therefore a moderate amount of vino a week makes you smarter (wohhhoo!).
The main conclusions drawn from the 7 year study on men and woman ( average age of 58 ) supported findings from previous research which showed that;
Women who didn’t drink at all usually had lower cognitive abilities than those who did.
Woman who drink wine at least four times over a two-week period were at reduced risk of scoring poorly on the tests compared with woman who had less than one drink during the period
And the interesting one, which I especially know my boyfriend will like…
Drinking wine, but not beer and spirits, was positively associated with cognitive function in women, whereas both beer and wine consumption was associated with better cognitive test scores in men.
So there you have it, just another reason to skip that AFD and poor yourself a nice glass of red this evening. For more information, check out this site.
Casey started Travelling Corkscrew in 2010 and has been wine blogging ever since. She has completed her WSET level 2 and 3 and is currently based in Tasmania, Australia. When she's not drinking wine and blogging, she runs an SEO & Google Ads company and hangs out with Mr Spittoon, her two kids and two furbabies.
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