Maureen wrote:[
I think all doctors recommend these food items as beneficial.
I realize that "antioxidant" is a buzzword for people to mean healthy, but the evidence on the general medicinal benefits of coffee is pretty equivocal, with green tea it is minimal, and with moderate amounts of wine there is good evidence of mild benefit. There's a a difference between a medical doctor suggesting that consuming these substances can be beneficial and actively prescribing them as treatment for conditions. Again, alcohol is quite risky to become habit forming in the general population, nearly on par with opiates. That's a major contraindication that normally would prevent any doctor from treating it as a prescription for the mild benefits it can offer. If your doctor is telling you drinking a glass or two of wine at night can't hurt your heart health, that's fine. If you have a doctor recommend you start drinking for your heart, you better find a new doctor.
It is very unlikely someone had a doctor prescribe them green tea, 4 cups of coffee a day, and 2 glasses of wine a day as a treatment. That screams of a contrived scenario concocted by Zelph to try and argue that the WoW neglects good health advice.