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Dr_Tannin
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2498
 | | 02/09/2003 5:32 PM |
| Fodd for thought.
Several epidemiologic studies have suggested that wine reduces the incidence of adult onset diabetes, up to 80%.
The flip side is once you have diabetes, you shouldn't drink, because of wine effects and interactions with oral medications.
Any internists wish to comment on this catch 22. | | | |
| love_cab_chard
Master of Wine
Posts:12485
| | 02/09/2003 6:01 PM |
| Well, I hope that I don't have diabetes (@ all) for more reasons that this. But, this 1 of them. Or, any other major illnesses, for that matter.
Doesn't surprise me, seems like Wine reduces the incidences of many illnesses.
Although, hard to imagine life without Wine. Without many other things, I can manage I guess (you do what you have to...). W/O Wine?!?, would not be good... | | | |
| David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
Master Sommelier
Posts:15756
| | 02/09/2003 10:40 PM |
| I have diabetes: type 2 adult onset but I do take insulin. I am 60 years old and way overweight. My vet says I do not have to stop drinking.
When I drink alcohol it actually lowers my blood sugars. I understand this is true in about 50% of the cases. The more I drink the less insulin I have to take. Seriously. With good monitoring and good sense my diabetes is under control. Let me put it this way; I ain't gonna die from diabetes.
There are problems if you are taking medications that if taken with alcohol can adversly affect your liver. That is the problem. You must be aware.
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| Bradley Molzen
Bayonne, NJ
Wine Lover
Posts:4986
| | 02/10/2003 5:08 AM |
| That's a fairly interesting story davidn. I'm glad you are still able to enjoy this damned hobby of ours. Lowering blood sugar seems to contradict how wine sometimes reacts with me. If I drink A LOT of red wine, I have trouble sleeping at night. Presumably, that's because the wine breaks down into simple sugars that are pumping energy into a sleeping body... makes me very figidity. I of course, am no doctor and really don't know what's going on....
Can anyone shed some light? | |
If you drink wine, you get smarter.... | |
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