Older women who enjoy a regular tipple have a better quality of life than those who abstain, or drink at very low levels, research suggests.
The study of 628 patients undergoing elective surgery found that women who drink at least twice a week were happier with their lot than those who had little or no alcohol.
The research looked at quality of life of patients aged 60 and over before and after surgery, checking for mobility, anxiety and depression, and levels of comfort.
The study found little difference between men, regardless of their drinking habits, before surgery.
But afterwards, those who enjoyed a drink fared better for quality of life, compared with peers who avoided alcohol as they recovered from operations.
Or even, a little of what you fancy does you good.
One of life’s little amusements is observing how some will absolutely latch onto the folk cures of some other society and yet resolutely condemn those of their own. Some wizened hag promoting some jungle leaf is fawned over, our own society’s glass of sherry is dismissed.
What about chocolate ? Did they alsomeasure how much the women eat ?
You’ve got a point Otto. A diet of booze and chocolate sounds ideal!!
At some point you have to accept that some people just like worrying!
I’d say it’s some people just like others worrying, Wonko!!
“…our own society…”
I thought that sherry was named for Jerez in Spain?
(“I don’t follow you?” being another cultural appropriation from the Iberian Pensinsula)
When I tire of sherry I drink Madeira. (Mark Twain or Albert Einstein or someone famous.)
Axshully, I enjoy sherry more and more – absurdly good value too.
Wonko: And that, in fact, makes me wonder about cause and effect. Is it just that the type of woman who enjoys the occasional tipple is also less inclined to grumble about life?
Fixed it for ya.
Why are they drinking? Is it because they go out for friends and so have a good time?
I hope that the study has compared all factors (I am not saying it is untrue but hard to prove).