Thinking an aperitif might help patients with advanced cancer slow weight loss, researchers randomized subjects to a glass of wine a day, but it didn’t appear to make a difference. One study on wine and appetite showed a significant bump in caloric intake, but not for the reason the researchers were expecting.4877 When study participants were randomized to drink wine, beer, or soda with a meal, they ended up consuming more calories with the wine—but not because they ate more food. It was because they drank more wine. A quarter of the subjects drank the entire bottle, the “maximum allowed for
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