Wine 'cuts dementia'

Red wine could help to preserve your memory, say doctors.

A study of 1,709 older people in Copenhagen found that "occasional" red wine drinkers were 50 per cent less likely to develop dementia, including Alzheimer's.

"It could mean that substances in wine reduce the occurrence of dementia," says Dr Thomas Truelsen today in The Quarterly Review of Alcohol Research.

"If so, we could maybe develop treatments based on them." Wine is known to contain flavonoids, which aid circulation.

But there was bad news for beer lovers. While spirits appeared to have no effect, regular beer drinking was linked to a doubling of the dementia risk.

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