Beer Friday

Drink beer or go nuts.

Data compiled from 15 international studies, including responses from more than 10,000 people, found that drinkers, not teetotallers, are better off when it comes to developing diseases affecting cognitive function.

Those aged 60 and older who consumed between one and 28 alcoholic drinks each week, were almost 30 per cent less likely to have Alzheimer's later on in life, the data found.

I am already quite thoroughly demented, but I'm delighted to hear that 28 beers a week is a "moderate drinker". Best we not discuss the two fifths of scotch, though...