We have succeeded in reducing the number of smokers. Now it's your glass of wine's turn. Whereas the government used to bet on countering alcoholabuse by now, every glass of wine is taboo. After all, wine contains alcohol and alcohol is not healthy. Full stop. The anti-alcohol lobby is very busy with it. If you want to nuance this from the world of wine, you are suspect from the start, after all, you are a ‘dealer’.
Text: Bernard Nauta | Image: Unsplash
Now I don't want to argue that alcohol is a kind of vitamin C. Of course it isn't. Anyone who has occasionally drunk too deeply will feel it the next morning. We don't need expensive studies for that. Yet we drink wine. For a long time and by a lot. Not because we are addicted. The Dutch are only modest drinkers. Apparently, we also experience positive effects. Let me try to name those.
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