Diet Could Explain Health Benefits From Wine
Diet Could Explain Health Benefits From Wine
A new study shows that people who buy wine tend to buy healthier food than those who buy beer, and this could be the reason for their lower rates of illness.
Professor Morten Gronbaek and colleagues from the National Institute of Public Health in Denmark recorded the buying habits of shoppers in 98 Danish supermarkets.
Through analysing 3.5 million transactions, they found that wine buyers bought more olives, fruit and vegetables, poultry, cooking oil, and low fat cheese, milk, and meat. On the other hand, beer buyers bought more ready cooked dishes, sugar, cold cuts, chips, pork, butter or margarine, sausages, lamb, and soft drinks.
The study appeared on the website of the British Medical Journal.
Professor Gronbaek and his team write: "Variation in diet associated with the preferred drink may explain why wine has an additional beneficial effect on health. [In our study] wine buyers made more purchases of healthy food items than people who buy beer."
The findings are in line with previous results from the US and France which found that people who drink wine tend to eat fruit, vegetables, and fish and use cooking oil more often and saturated fat less often than others.
The authors conclude: "The influence of type of alcoholic drink on mortality could be due to insufficient adjustment for lifestyle factors such as diet, drinking patterns, smoking, physical activity, education, or income."
Last Updated: 23/01/2006 - 12:00 AM
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