{"id":2247,"date":"2019-09-03T17:34:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T07:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/no-proof-red-wine-makes-you-slim-or-is-good-for-your-gut-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:00:33","slug":"no-proof-red-wine-makes-you-slim-or-is-good-for-your-gut-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/no-proof-red-wine-makes-you-slim-or-is-good-for-your-gut-2\/","title":{"rendered":"No proof red wine makes you slim or is good for your gut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to use evidence to say what you want!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When a headline sounds too good to be true, it usually is. There&#8217;s nothing in this study to suggest that people should start drinking red wine to lose weight.<\/p>\n<p>The potential effect of diet on the micro-organisms in the gut is a new and interesting field of science.<\/p>\n<p>This study provides new evidence about a possible effect of substances found in red wine on the growth of micro-organisms in the gut, and suggests that this may affect the way the body works.<\/p>\n<p>But the study has several limitations. Because it&#8217;s cross-sectional, it shows us only a snapshot in time.<\/p>\n<p>We do not know how the women&#8217;s gut micro-organisms, BMI or red wine consumption changed over time.<\/p>\n<p>This means we cannot say whether 1 of these factors may have been directly influencing the other.<\/p>\n<p>Because it was an observational study, we do not know whether red wine was the cause of differences in BMI or gut micro-organisms.<\/p>\n<p>Other factors may have been involved, such as women&#8217;s overall lifestyles.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers did try to adjust for the impact of some factors, but it&#8217;s difficult to remove them completely.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the study relied on women&#8217;s reports of how much alcohol they drank. People often underestimate how much alcohol they drink.<\/p>\n<p>We know there&#8217;s a big downside to drinking alcohol, especially in excess. There&#8217;s no &#8220;safe&#8221; level of alcohol consumption, but drinking less than 14 units of alcohol a week is considered low risk.<\/p>\n<p>Regularly drinking more than this increases the risk of several types of cancer, stroke, heart disease, liver disease, brain damage and nervous system problems.<\/p>\n<p>For people who enjoy an occasional glass of red wine and drink less than 14 units a week, this study suggests they may have more diverse gut flora.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s no reason to start drinking red wine in the hope of achieving improved gut health or losing weight. The study does not provide enough evidence of this<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/news\/food-and-diet\/no-proof-red-wine-makes-you-slim-or-good-your-gut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For complete story<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to use evidence to say what you want! Conclusion: When a headline sounds too good to be true, it usually is. There&#8217;s nothing in this study to suggest that people should start drinking red wine to lose weight. The potential effect of diet on the micro-organisms in the gut is a new and interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-as-medicine","tag-cannabis-as-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}