Drink With Dinner, Skip Dessert

More reasons to have a drink with dinner! Take it away, Science:

For many people, a glass of wine helps make food feel like it’s going down more smoothly. But drinking alcohol with a rich and fatty meal causes food to linger in the stomach longer, found a new study — leading people to feel fuller over a greater period of time. The findings offer new insight into the complicated and multi-faceted ways that alcohol interacts with digestion and appetite.

I am not a scientist, but my research in this area has also shown that having alcohol with dinner makes both the meal and the people you are eating it with immensely more tolerable. The more you etc.!