Wine drinkers eat olives, beer drinkers eat lamb.
If you like wine, a new study says you are more likely to care about healthy eating. Big surprise?
Wine drinkers have healthier diets than people who prefer beer, according to research reported by Danish scientists on Friday.
They tend to buy more fruits, vegetables, olives, low fat cheese and cooking oil than beer drinkers who are more likely to consume ready meals, soft drinks, sugar, sausages, lamb and butter or margarine.
First off: Lamb??! Who knew that lamb was such a touchstone for healthy eating. (Note to self: cut down on the haggis.)
Second: The sample for this study is entirely based in Denmark, but the results are pretty intuitive. (Well, maybe not the finding re: lamb…) Wine is still perceived as upmarket, compared to beer (microbrews excepted). Socioeconomic status and healthy eating, or at least a consciousness about healthy eating, tend to go hand in hand. So big whoop.
Now, if someone would fund research to replicate the 2003 Duke University study that wine drinkers make better lovers…
tags: wine | wine and health
