Flutterby™! : Drinking wards off dementia

Study shows moderate drinking can ward off dementia, although short term it's obviously no proof against being a blithering idiot. Apparently the type of alcohol wasn't important, while red wine may be good for cholesterol, anything's good for dementia:

By the end of the study in 1999, 197 of the participants had developed Alzheimer's or another form of dementia. Those who fared best were people who drank between one and three drinks a day. They had a 42 percent lower risk of developing dementia than the nondrinkers.