The internet allows buyers to shop for just about anything from cars to finding a wife or husband. That can be a dangerous thing, because buyers can also shop for truth.
I like a glass of wine from time to time. Yet, I am concerned about its health benefits. So, I do as so many of us do in our modern internet age, I go looking on the web to find out what the experts and the science has to say about wine and its consumption.
Not as simple as it sounds. Like so many things today, there is conflicting data, expert disagreements and a wide range of studies with differing results. If anyone starts going down that path, or almost any rabbit hole looking for answers to a particular question, they will find more information than they bargained for.
Many studies show moderate wine consumption is good for people. Wine contains antioxidants, which are good for the heart and has several other benefits. Other studies suggest that this is not the case.
Using the wine consumption example, most studies use the term moderate consumption. Okay, what is moderate? Oh oh … I shouldn’t have asked that question.
One study stated that one glass a day for women and two glasses per day for men is moderate. Another claims two glasses for women and men is moderate. Yet another expert says up to 10 units of alcohol a day will not harm consumers (10 units is about five glasses). And still others say alcohol is unhealthy, period.
So, what do we do with such vast and differing information? There is only one thing to do... truth shop! And being human, with a variety of differing facts and opinions at our disposal, we choose the ones that we want to be true, not necessarily the ones that may actually be true.
In other words, the internet is fertile ground and a tool for us to use in order to garner a truth that supports what we want that truth to be.
Of course, I do not truth shop myself; I just witness others do so.
But lucky for me, as I write this article, I pour my second (and final) glass of wine this evening. After all, studies conclusively show that a glass or two of wine a day is good for you.
