Health guru Galina Imrie looks at the health benefits of whisky and drinking.
Do you notice that every time you have a lovely, long civilised dinner with a good friend that involves high quality single malt, drunk slowly and with appreciation, at some point during the evening you feel intensely, almost palpably happy? This feeling of happiness and completeness is so deep, rea...
By Galina Imrie
from Issue 68 published on 07/12/2007
Alcohol is not only good for you, says Dr Thomas Stutaford; it also used to be available on Britain's National Health Service
My father, who taught me much about life and medicine, wasn’t a drinking man, as the term would be understood in the remoter parts of the Fens or marshes of East Anglia. From an early age I and my brothers always joined him in drinking beer at lunch time. As a night-cap, a very liberal measure of wh...
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from Issue 4 published on 13/6/1999