Most university students know this. Isn't it fact that post people peaked academically at university. Isn't it also a fact that university was the place that alcohol consumption peaked. Ipso facto drink more, stay smarter. :-) Baron Carter -----Original Message----- From: kilopascal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, 25 November, 2000 11:40 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:9358] Drink more wine 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.
