Wine & Health: Making sense of the new science and what it means for wine lovers (Paperback)

6 x 9", 240pp, B&W, illustration, index Richard Baxter, M.D. "The best book ever written on the science of wine.”-David A. Sinclair, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging “No amount of alcohol is safe.” So read the August 23, 2018 headlines following the publication in the journal Lancet of a global study. Though in the weeks after the Lancet’s publication it became plain that the authors' conclusions were overstated to bait the media, it was hard to ignore troubling epidemiological evidence that this and other recent studies had discovered which seemed to refute decades of positive health associations with moderate alcohol consumption. So, in this apparent paradigm shift, what happened to the French Paradox? According to the first wide-ranging and magisterial analysis of the existing wine health science, Wine & Health, the answer emerges as a set of new paradoxes: We see that studi