No longer do you need to find a new doctor if your current one suggests you stop drinking. Gene Ford is a political scientist and journalist who has written a new book called The Science of Healthy Drinking. This challenging tome provides sufficient evidence to suggest with some conviction that the moderate consumption of alcohol is not such a bad thing at all, and can even play a positive role in the treatment and management of many medical conditions. Ford has studied over 1500 articles and epidemiological studies on the relationship between alcohol consumption and a wide range of medical conditions and diseases conducted in the US and elsewhere. He details thirty specific health benefits of drinking and arrives at the conclusion that ‘Americans are systematically being deprived of information needed to make informed choices regarding alcohol use’. The Science of Healthy Drinking is a 400-plus hardback also available from the Wine Appreciation Guild’s website at www.wineappreciation.com. It costs US$29.95.
