Get drunk - keep the weight off

Have 2-3 glasses of red wine every night, and not only is it good for your heart, but it also, if you're a middle-aged woman, helps you gain less weight. So says an article in the latest edition of Archives of Internal Medicine. You can read MSNBC's account of it here. . What I find interesting about the MSNBC article is the way it trumpets the fact that moderate drinking showed better results than teetotaling; but is curiously vague on the issue of moderate drinking versus out-and-out drunkenness. . What if getting schnockered worked just as well as the 2-3 glasses of wine? What if it worked better? Would the results still get published? After all, you can't ingest any calories when you're passed out on the floor. . Perhaps if those were the conclusions, you'd simply downplay them and focus instead on the fact that moderate drinking outperformed no drinking at all. Which, come to think of it, is exactly what that article does.