If food pricesgo up, many people may have to switch from wine and hardliquor to beer. But this may not be a problem, becausecontrary to popular opinion, beer is as healthy?if not morehealthy?than wine.
Charles Bamforth, who holds a teaching chair at UC Daviswhich is endowed by a beer manufacturer, says that beercontains valuable B vitamins, such as B12, folic acid andniacin, as well as antioxidants, which help prevent cancer.
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Marnie Old, a sommelier and wine educator from Philadelphia,is offering a new course covering the fundamentals of winethat’s free and available on the internet.clickhere to become a wine expert.
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King Tutankhamun drank red wine, according to a new scientific method that can determine the color of the wine residue found in the ancient jars that were buried with him in his tomb.
Scientists have found wine in a jar from 5400 BC in present-day Iran. But our earliest knowledge about wine growing comes from ancient Egypt, where the winemaking process was depicted on tomb walls in drawings from 2600 BC. “Wine in ancient Egypt was a drink of great importance, consumed by the upper classes and the kings,” says Egyptologist Maria Rosa Guasch-Jan
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Lately, researchers have been telling us that red wineprotects us from heart disease. Now they think it may not bethe wine that does it, but the lifestyle that goes alongwith it.
A new study of more than 4,400 U.S. men and women, findsthat those whose called wine their beverage of choice alsoate more healthful diets and were less likely to smoke thaneither those who favored beer or hard alcohol, or drinkerswith no preference.
Surprisingly, all drinkers eat better than teetotalers.According to the study, they exercised more and ate morevegetables (bar peanuts don?t count). The greatest healthdifferences were seen between wine drinkers and those whodrink other forms of alcohol. This may be because winedrinkers are less likely to smoke.
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