A Drink or Two is Good for You

Articles like this one from Saturday's Times always intrigue me:

"Boozing boosts women’s brain power"

"...a new study reports that one or two drinks a day can improve female brain power."

"The research, in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, says that women who have a couple of daily glasses score about 20 per cent higher in intelligence tests than women who don’t drink, or drink very little."

"The researcher, Clinton Wright, an assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University, New York, is unsure why moderate drinking might have this effect on women. Nor did his study of 2,215 people find any such link between men’s boozing and boosted brains."

My theory? Drinking slows down the whizzing, fizzing thoughts and we really need that.