Posted on 05/27/2006 2:55:21 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Having a drink or two each day appears to be better for the heart than having a drink just now and then, at least for middle-aged men, a Danish study finds.
Men who drank moderately each day had a 41 percent lower risk of heart disease than abstainers, while the risk was only 7 percent lower for those who drank on no more than one day a week, the researchers found. The team found no such benefit to daily drinking for women, however.
"This is one more study suggesting that a modest to moderate amount of alcohol in the world of heart disease is reasonably healthy," said Dr. Richard A. Stein, clinical professor of medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center in New York, and a spokesman for the American Heart Association.
Stein was not involved in the study, which was conducted by researchers at the Center for Alcohol Research, part of the National Institute for Public Health in Copenhagen. The findings are published in the May 27 issue of the British Medical Journal.
The study followed over 22,400 women and more than 25,000 men ages 50 to 65 for nearly six years. The results were adjusted for known cardiac risk factors such as age, smoking, education, physical activity and diet.
Researchers did note a considerable difference in benefit between the sexes. Compared to abstainers, women who drank once a week had a slightly greater reduction in cardiovascular risk (36 percent) than women who drank every day (35 percent).
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Researchers did note a considerable difference in benefit between the sexes. Compared to abstainers, women who drank once a week had a slightly greater reduction in cardiovascular risk (36 percent) than women who drank every day (35 percent)."
What I would conclude from this, is that ANY drinking is better than NOT drinking at all; that women show benefit even from occasional drinking, while for men, daily drinking shows additional benefits, over occasional drinking.
Cheers! To your health!
health ping
If I wear beer goggles, do I get to save money on glasses too?
And it tastes better than...say...pork and beans.
Works for me!!
Live forever-don't take you're wife to the bar with you.
I have a lot of catching up to do. If I drink twice as much, will I get healthier in half the time? //sarcasm off
treory=theory. Time to drink.
I'm 40, come from a family of alcoholics, and have never had a drink in my life. I also eat no vegetables--meats and starches for me. I've gained a lot of weight recently and haven't been exercising. I'm also an angry person!!!!!
So I have started hitting the gym, and when I mentioned drinking to a friend he said based on my addictive personality and family history, it would be suicide to do so.
So I guess I have to eat less, go to the gym more, and hope I make it.
P.S. When I mentioned my health concerns to a doctor friend (she's not my doctor) she right off said she obviously couldn't make a solid judgment without an exam, but that I neither drink nor smoke put me way ahead of most people in terms of basic health.
Hick, scuse me?
http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/
yitbos
That's funny, I thought I read just a couple of weeks ago that a study found there was nothing to this.
Crap! This means Ted Kennedy is going to live 4ever!
that's because the folks conducting that particular study had not been drinking...if they had had a couple of cold ones, they would have come to a different conclusion...
Only one percent difference between a drink a day or a drink per week for women .... hmmmmm ... will have to think about that .....
Life is fatal if you live long enough. In the meantime, double Scotch on the rocks!
"Only one percent difference between a drink a day or a drink per week for women .... hmmmmm ... will have to think about that ....."
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But the point is a 35-36% reduction in heart disease risk over women who don't drink at all.
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