Is wine good to you, or is wine bad to you? Frankly I don't know any more. It's all getting to be terribly confusing. The more I read, the more confused I become.

Up until recently every article I read talked about the incredible, magical properties contained in red wine and how a couple of glasses a day would cure whatever ailed you, from high cholesterol to an enlarged prostate. Well almost.

Now as I read the press, I see more and more stories about wine being bad for you, especially for women. And even that situation is not cut and dried or clear. in the last couple of days I have seen the following stories.

Wine could prevent dementia in women: study

Women who drink wine appear to be protected against dementia in middle-age and the effect is strongest in women who drink wine exclusively, new research shows. What's more, wine drinkers - at least women - are less likely to develop dementia than regular beer or liquor drinkers even though they're more likely to live long enough to develop the brain disorder.

Now that is good news. But in the same release I received that day was this story.

Two glasses of wine a day 'puts breast cancer risk up by 50 per cent'

Just two large glasses of wine a day can raise the risk of breast cancer by more than half, research shows. A study of almost 185,000 women found even moderate drinking significantly increases the risk of the disease. A single large glass of wine a day raises the risk by almost a third.