101 Chapter 10 – The Alcohol Paradox You’ re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. Dean Martin I don ' t drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin. Joe Lewis It seems that researchers at Colorado University say wine may help people lose weight. It ' s not the wine directly that causes the weight loss. It ' s all the walking around you do trying to find your car. Jay Leno I only drink Champagne when I’ m happy, and when I’ m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I am alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I’ m not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it, unless I’ m thirsty. Lily Bollinger The French Paradox is never more interesting than when it comes to alcohol. In fact it was alcohol that was first thought to explain why the French could eat so much rich food and not suffer from the high levels of obesity and arterial disease that plague the rest of the western world. Wondering if this was the secret resulted in a lot of attention to the physiological effects of alcohol in its different forms. As we have seen, this is only one of the factors that explain the French Paradox As this research has been written about extensively over the last couple of decades I will simply summarize it quickly. There is no doubt that alcohol, in moderation, has health benefits. Some are attributable to