WHY is golf like red wine? Because sometimes it is good for you and sometimes it is not 鈥� depending on which news stories you read. The same goes for coffee, vitamin E and more.
This impression that health research is a mass of contradictory findings arises from reports of small, one-off studies. These cannot provide definitive answers: it鈥檚 the totality of evidence that matters. Look at that, and it鈥檚 clear that we do know the answer to the golf question, and lots of others too. So is golf good for you? You can find out on page 34.