Alcohol’s adverse effects are well documented: it is the fifth largest risk factor for premature mortality and disability in high income countries and the seventh largest worldwide. The amount and form of alcohol consumption in England has fluctuated over the past 300 years, largely in response to economic, legislative, and social factors. Until the later 20th century the forms most commonly dr...

15 16 The impact of the non-volatile wine matrix composition on the retronasal aroma 17 released during the consumption of wine has been evaluated. For this purpose, a tailored 18 made retronasal aroma trapping device (RATD) was used to entrap the exhaled breath 19 of six panelists previously trained in a specific consumption procedure. Five 20 compositional different wines (white wine, sparkli...

Alcohol beverages, particularly red wine, when consumed in moderation reduce the risk of acute CVD and death. Important questions and issues, however, still remain, including the role of beverage type, pattern of drinking, and the risk that moderate drinking can lead to problem drinking. The mechanism for alcohol beverage benefit is complex, and includes an independent benefit of ethyl alcohol....

OBJECTIVE To evaluate prospectively the health risk of wine and beer drinking in middle-aged men in the area of Nancy, France. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SUBJECTS A total of 36 250 healthy men who underwent comprehensive health appraisals in a center of preventive medicine between January 1, 1978, and December 31, 1983. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Education, professional and leisure activ...

It was an unexpected pleasure to be invited to write a Perspectives in Diabetes article considering the proposition that moderate consumption of red wine provides health benefits for people with diabetes. At the outset, I want to make clear that since Perspectives in Diabetes are not review articles in the conventional sense, this one does not exhaustively analyze the effects of beer, hard liqu...

This narrative review aims to summarize the current controversy on the balance between ethanol and phytochemicals in wine, focusing on light drinking and oral cancer. Extensive literature search included PUBMED and EMBASE databases to identify in human studies and systematic reviews (up to March 2015), which contributed to elucidate this issue. Independently from the type of beverage, meta-anal...

AIMS To analyse the determinants of youth drinking behaviour within an economic -theoretical framework. The paper focuses especially on the effects of (a) having parents willing to supply alcohol, (b) living in a single-parent household, (c) having parents who are currently unemployed and (d) having received education about alcohol, narcotics and tobacco. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A Sw...

At a wine tasting event with live classical music, we assessed whether participants would agree that certain wine and music pairings were congruent. We also assessed the effect of musical congruency on the wine tasting experience. The participants were given two wines to taste and two pieces of music-one chosen to match each wine-were performed live. Half of the participants tasted the wines wh...

The features of the situation wine drinking, its individual author’s interpretation in D. S. Merezhkovsky’s novel “Peter and Alexei” are considered. relevance study is connected, firstly, with inclusion circle studies related to idiostyle, secondly, determining influence views author-symbolist on representation details everyday life, particular drinking wine. material for research was a selecti...