What’s the REAL connection between wine and your health? Anyone who hasn’t been living the past few years on that crazy Lost island (with the ghosts and tropical polar bears and droll plot lines) has likely heard that wine is purported to have benefits to your overall health. But the connection between better health and…
Category: wine health
5 Reasons Why Smoking Kills Wine Appreciation
(images: wiskirchengallery.com, farm3.static.flickr.com, smokingkills.com) Guess what? Smoking sucks donkey butt. Hardly a news flash, right? But what you might not know already is that, aside from the fact that smoking kills more people per year than alcohol & drug abuse, homicides, suicides, car accidents, fires, and AIDS-related deaths – combined – it also kills something…
Why Kids are Collateral Damage in the War for Your Wine Dollar (and What You Can Do About It)
(images: tastephx.com, defendamerica.mil, green-talk.com) For those of you plying along at home, I’m a new dad – of only a few remarkable days. As you might imagine, you could change my handle to “1DiaperDude” and it would be an apt description, since I’m far more involved in baby-related activities at the moment than I am…
In the News: Drinking Can Cut Risk of Heart Disease (+ Other Tidbits)
(image: healingdaily.com) Mark Fisher, who writes the Uncorked blog at the Dayton Daily News, has posted an interesting piece this week with his thoughts on a recent American Journal of Medicine alcohol study. Mark’s thoughts are always worth a read, and this article is no exception (and thanks to him as well for mentioning my…