DOES WHITE WINE REALLY SEND WOMEN LOOPY?
DOES WHITE WINE REALLY SEND WOMEN LOOPY?
Many contend that white wine has special crazy-making properties.
For some time now the anecdotal evidence has been building and it finally reached tipping point this morning in the form of a front page Daily Mail headline: “Women who say white wine turn them into MONSTERS.” (The capitalisation is all theirs).
The women interviewed variously blame white wine (but only white wine, not any other sort of alcohol) for sending them into such a crazy rage that they smash furniture and break windows, or become belligerent, or trip up on the kerb, snapping their metatarsal in the process, and then forget where they live.
We don’t need to ask a bunch of neuroscientists to talk to us about how alcohol acts on NMDA and GABA receptors in the brain to figure out what’s going on here.
But, just in case, you are approached by a woman with a dangerous glint in her eye, telling you she’s finally feeling ready to have a go with white wine again for the first time..You might just head for the door.