A recent study finds that Spanish women who drink wine or other
alcoholic beverages in moderation experience depression in much
smaller numbers than women who don't drink alcohol. Men who
drank and women who drank more than one or two beverages a day
did not enjoy a noticeable benefit. The study, conducted mainly
by researchers at the University of Navarra's Department of
Preventive Medicine and Public Health and published in BMC
Public Health, followed up with 13,619 university graduates,
both men and women, typically 38 years old, who had been
originally recruited for a larger study conducted from 1999 to
2008. When the study began, all the participants were free of
depression. For women, moderate alcohol intake, equal to one or
two glasses of wine per day, was associated with a 38 percent
lower risk of depression. But the positive results were only
recorded for women. The type of alcoholic beverage consumed did
not appear to make a difference. The University of Leicester, in
England, recently hosted an ent