Drinking Wine Makes You Live Longer, 5 Years In Fact

Half a glass of wine a day can add five years to your life — if you’re over 50, a study has revealed today.And up to two glasses of wine or beer or two shots of spirits can give you two more years.

Drinking a bit more alcohol reduces the life-giving benefit — but is better than nothing at all.

Study head Dr Martinette Streppel, of Wageningen University in Holland, said “long-term, light” drinking in middle-age was linked to lower “all-cause death risk” and “longer life expectancy at age fifty”.

All we need now is a reason to eat more fish and chips and life is grand! Might be the time to start investing in wine

Hat tip Sun

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