It's One Thing to Be Fooled by Fake News, But People Are Being Fooled by the SAME Fake News Over and Over. Proof is that "Glass of Wine Replaces Hour of Exercise" Narrative that Springs up Year after There is this fake news about wine that wine is good for you.  It's not good for you.  That is proven by science.  But it's also not too bad for you.  Glass of wine a day is really not that bad for you, they've found.  

The fake news comes from this idea that 

* "a glass of wine is good for the heart"
* "a glass of wine a day keeps the doctor away"
* "a glass of wine will make you young"
* "a glass of wine replaces an hour of exercise"

I'm here to tell you, sadly, none of that shit is true.  This is fake news being put out as an *advertorial* or *"native ad"* to boost sales of the Alcohol / Wine Industry, and it comes up every single damned year.  To prove this yourself (as in do your own research), drill down on their citations.  They cite real articles and studies, they just cite the wrong ones that aren't about alcohol whatsoever.

These narratives have been debunked by at least 20 studies on NIH.gov, by me personally, and by many others online.  If you dig, you will find.  I'm far far too lazy to do it for you right here unless this post gets a lot of attention, and then I will.  This isn't a form of emotional blackmail. I'm not bullshitting you, ok, and if you hate this post, that's fine, you can screech all you want in the commetns below as you drink your beloved wine, and it will have absolutly no impact on me, because I know in my heart I'm telling you this to save your life.  Tough love.  Your alcohol is a bad guy.

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**How is it fake news?**

It's fake news very simply because shitty journalists conflate 'reseveratrol' with 'wine', claiming that the benefits of resveratrol are gotten from wine.  While to some degree they may, these benefits are cancelled out by alcohol completely and the amounts of resveratrol are miniscule compared to studies given to the subjects on the effects of resveratrol.  If you want resveratrol, take a pill with japanese knotweed root extract, not with wine.   I could just as easily serve you turpentine with some resveratrol mixed in it, but then don't say that this concoction will replace an hour of exercise, because a dead person doesn't get ANY exercise

It's just shitbrained conflation propaganda, and it RELIES on the fact that people do NOT drill down on these shitty journalists' sources.  

The last time my mother sent me an article on this, I had to click 2 links to get to the original source document

Which took me to this 2012 study (meaning the Alcohol industry has been gaslighting the public, for the last 8 yrs)

*Resveratrol may be natural exercise performance enhancer*

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120619225941.htm

...That said nothing about alcohol....and which she sent from this article:

https://www.lifehack.org/369382/science-says-glass-red-wine-can-replace-1-hour-exercising

...Which links to other debunked stories as well, that are undergirded by more irrelevant resveratrol studies.

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**Conclusion**

No amount of alcohol is good for you.  Alcohol interferes with the function of your immune system.   Heavy drinking at 4-5 major american holidays from Halloween to New Years in a very short amount of time is why people are much more susceptible to coronaviruses, erm, I mean the "common cold" and the influenza virus, and this is confimred by their incubation time expiry right at the ramp up to the peak in early february every single year

It's not like coronavirus / influenza "knows" it's february.   But certainly it DOES know that you've been drinking heavily, giving it the "opportunity"  because these are "opportunistic illnesses"

Bottom ilne:  drink if you have to, but if you want health benefits take a reseveratrol pill

conflicts-of-interest disclosure:  I am not working in the interest of any commercial or anti-commercial industry.  These are my own opinions.