Re: Red, red wine revisited

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 23:19:10 +0100, "Nicky"
<ukc802466929@btconnect.com> wrote:

>
>"Alan S" <loralgtweightandcarbs@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:nckdi25pv0aohovbap68e3sfapn7oo3ave@4ax.com.. .
>> "Women who drank moderately (2-4 drinks/day) showed
>> superior performance in many cognitive domains relative to
>> abstainers. "
>
><suspicion> but is that because people who are moderate are more likely to
>be bright and moderately wealthy (so educated) / less likely to have damaged
>themselves through immoderation? I'm not sure the root cause is clear here.

Also may depend on exactly what is measured and how.

I used to be tolerably good at darts (arrows) and shovehapenny after
exactly the correct amount of alcohol: above and below that (somewhere
between half and one pint of average beer) I was pretty crap.

Also I remember on my HGV (truck) driving course, we travelled out in
convoy and ended up at a funfair followed by a pub lunch one day.
After a half pint all the stuff I'd been learning came together for
the first time and I was driving in such an integrated way that the
instructor nodded off in the cab on the way back, quite a compliment I
thought <G> he explained later that's why they'd done it: after the
theory classes and heavy duty training including stuff on a disused
airfield, and a gradually increasing load of roadwork they'd found
that a "relaxing day" including a small amount of alcohol had exactly
that effect.