More Good Health News About Wine — Dave’s Diary

The next two weekends in the Yakima Valley are a tribute to the wine industry. Pre-Spring Barrel Tasting and Spring Barrel Tasting will bring thousands of visitors into the valley to sample the future. They come for fun, but if they needed another excuse to drink wine, new research suggests that four to six glasses a week could lessen your risk for osteoarthritis.

The good health news about wine continues to fill the glass and overflow!

Research shows people who drink about a glass per day are 45 percent less likely to develop knee osteoarthritis than those who abstain from alcohol. So raise a glass and toast to deep knee bends!

And for you beer drinkers looking in over the fence — no toast for you. Study participants who drank between eight and 19 glasses of beer per week, actually increased their risk of the disease by 76 percent!