Wine "protects women's hearts"

Drinking wine instead of beer and spirits can help keep women's hearts beating healthily, according to new Swedish research. As the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk reports, scientists studied the effect of alcohol consumption for 102 women under the age of 75 who had survived a heart attack or surgery for blocked arteries. The researchers found that those who drank a small amount of wine every day for a year had the healthiest heart beat rhythms. However, drinking beer or spirits did not seem to have the same effect, said the team from the Karolinska Institute http://www.ki.se in Sweden, who carried out the research.