Interesting note - I was on an upstate NY winery tour last weekend (Seneca
Lake - "Deck the Halls" weekend) and noticed the casks in the wineries were
all metric (labeled 225L, 500L, etc). Unfortunately it looked like the
winery record keeping (handwritten labels, etc) were still gallons.
Nat
> 2000-11-25
>
> The facts are in, Wine makes you smarter. So, drink more wine. And
> remember, wine is sold in rational metric sizes. Wine is a
> metric product.
>
> John
>
>
>
> Brain Ages Well with Wine, Japan Research Says
>
> Reuters
>
> 2000-11-25 03:51 h
>
> TOKYO (Reuters) - Wisdom comes with age but the odd glass of wine may also
> give senior citizens a boost in brain power.
>
> Those over 40 who drink moderate amounts of wine or Japanese sake
> rice wine
> scored better in IQ tests than teetotalers and heavy drinkers,
> said a study
> conducted by Japan's national aging research center and published in
> Saturday's Tokyo Shimbun.
>
> "Alcohol protects certain brain functions against the aging process which
> means it has some influence on intelligence as well," researchers were
> reported as saying.
>
> In a four-year study conducted on about 2,000 people by the center, people
> who typically drank about one to three glasses of wine, or similar amounts
> of sake, a day had average IQ scores of 108.0 for men and 106.2 for women.
>
> Non-drinkers were at 104.7 for men and 103.7 for women, while
> heavy drinkers
> had the lowest IQ scores, the study said. It did not specify.
>
> Researchers said they plan to widen their study to see if
> moderate drinkers
> of other types of alcohol, such as gin or beer, scored better than
> non-drinkers and heavy drinkers.
>
>
