Associations in medicine are dangerous. Estrogen usage is associated with less heart disease, but we now assume that estrogen users generally had better health habits. Wine drinking is associated less heart disease. Is it the wine? Dining, not wining, is healthy

A study of 4,500 Americans found that wine drinkers lived longer, healthier lives because they also followed a diet richer in fruit and vegetables and higher in fibre than that of teetotallers.

Surprisingly, they also smoked less and exercised more than their non-drinking counterparts.

The findings, to be published in the forthcoming issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, suggests that wine lovers could be deluding themselves about the advantages of imbibing.

Hmm, I still think that red wine is good for me.