
It's the age-old query - one minute we're told a glass of red wine is good for you, the next we're told it's not.
In the same week a study is released singing the praises of Chianti - the drink to make you think - that one glass of the famous red wine is great for improving your brains memory and thoughts.
Yet we're also told that just one glass of wine a day increases our risk of breast cancer by 10% and ideally women shouldn't drink at all...
What do you think?
In all likelihood, most women will just shrug and reach for the corkscrew. There are, after all, so many conflicting stories about what is good and bad for you these days. Unfortunately, this is not some easily dismissed, pie-in-the-sky trial involving a couple of hundred people.
It is the Million Women Study, run by some very senior scientists at Oxford University. In research, size really does matter - and this is the biggest project of its kind on the planet.
Well over a million women - 1.3 million to be accurate. Seems to me that this isstudy, being the biggest of it's kind in the UK ever, is going to shake up the way we view our health and lifestyles in the long term - and there's a lot more yet to be released.

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