Tony Edwards is a former BBC TV producer-director-writer with more than 80 science documentaries to his credit (including programs such as PBS’s Nova). His work has received both Silver and Gold medals from the British Medical Association. After leaving the BBC, he wrote on science, technology and medicine for The Sunday Times, Reader’s Digest, Daily Mail and a wide variety of medical magazines.

Edwards describes himself as a “medical research journalist,” as he enjoys looking into published medical studies to check that the health advice doled out by the authorities corresponds to the actual medical data. It often doesn’t — particularly on the topic of alcohol. Hence the subtitle of The Very Good News About Wine, his latest book on the subject: “Authoritative health evidence the health authorities don’t tell you.” Purchase the book on Amazon https://rb.gy/xneyyf 

What prompted you to write The Very Good News About Wine?

 I first got “into” alcohol about 12 years ago, while doing the research for an article on the Calorie Theory. I had chanced upon the fact that alcohol, although high in calories, does not put on weight — an unexpected finding repeatedly confirmed in scientific laboratories. Dietary experiments on thousands of laboratory animals and hundreds of human guinea-pigs conclusively showed that, if foods containing a known number of calories are replaced by alcohol of the same calorific value, the “subjects” lose weight. Bizarre.

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