Drinking a little wine with dinner may help lower risks of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. Researchers examined the effect moderate drinking may have related to new-onset type 2 diabetes among nearly 312,400 adults from the UK Biobank who self-reported themselves as regular alcohol drinkers. During an average of nearly 11 years of follow-up, about 8,600 of the adults in the study developed type 2 diabetes. The analysis found: Consuming alcohol with meals was associated with a 14% lower risk of type 2 diabetes compared to consuming alcohol without eating food. The potential benefit of moderate drinking on type 2 diabetes risk was evident only among the people who drank alcohol during meals, although the specific time of meals was not collected in this study. The beneficial association between alcohol drinking with meals and type 2 diabetes was most common among participants who drank wine vs. other types …