SAVE MONEY ON TRAVEL DEALS

Dr. Martinette Streppel of Wageningen University followed 1,373 men born between 1900 and 1920 for 40 years, ending in 2000, the Daily Mirror reported. She and her colleagues found that drinking small quantities of wine regularly reduced the risk of heart attack and stroke.

"The cardio-protective effects of alcohol only held up for light consumption in middle-aged men", she said.

Drinking up to two glasses of wine or beer or two shots of liquor daily added about two years to life, the researchers found. Heavier consumption provided less benefit.

The findings were reported in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

 BREAKING STORIES

Royal Dutch Shell to cut 2,000 jobs

Handgrip may predict disability risk

Compromised family better than institution

Parents see their children skinnier

Icesave dispute focus of Europe meeting

Early menopause linked to earlier dementia

9 dead in Belgium building collapse

EIB loans SATA Group $53 million

Dutch teen sailor found

Netherlands to kill 35,000 goats

Quitting smoking can reverse asthma damage

Taylor: Taiwan, Libya backed campaign

Police: Man blackmailed teens' parents

Artificial meat grown in laboratory

Conscious man diagnosed in coma for years

Worm targets Dutch bank iPhone app

Movie subtitles improve foreign speech

'Too realistic' riot exercise called off

Boat tails on trucks save fuel

ESA seeks hypergravity experiments