Which are the driest wines?

[Thomas]

Heather,

Someone else asked that question in the "wine and health" section. I explained my truly layman theory there; essentially, since alcohol is metabolized as a sugar, and since the effect of too much alcohol is (among other things) lowering of blood sugar, it seems possible to me that diabetes and/or hypoglycemia can be related to alcholism.
I am hypoglycemic, and I stumbled on the effects of sugar before I knew what it was all about.
I have also always wondered about, and been in awe of, the amount of sugar (and caffeine) consumed by many recovering alcoholics I have met.