You are what you eat
It has been bandied about that people who drink modest amounts of red wine have fewer health problems. What observers have failed to do (until now) is look at the other habits of red wine drinkers.
Here is an
interesting paper on food buying habits:
Food buying habits of people who buy wine or beer: cross sectional study
Abstract
Objective To investigate whether people who buy wine buy healthier food items than those who buy beer.
Design Cross sectional study.
Setting Supermarkets in Denmark.
Data Information on number, type of item, and total charge from 3.5 million transactions over a period of six months.
Results Wine buyers bought more olives, fruit and vegetables, poultry, cooking oil, and low fat cheese, milk, and meat than beer buyers. Beer buyers bought more ready cooked dishes, sugar, cold cuts, chips, pork, butter or margarine, sausages, lamb, and soft drinks than wine buyers.
Conclusions Wine buyers made more purchases of healthy food items than people who buy beer.
Makes a lot of sense. Next time you go shopping, take a look around you and see what other people are buying. There is a reason that frozen pizzas and six-packs of Bud are sold everywhere. And that this nation has a problem with obesity...
Posted by DaveH at April 5, 2006 3:02 PM