Remember the one drink a day guideline for women? Forget it. A new study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Harvard University has found that women who have an alcoholic drink or two a day in midlife turn out to be healthier overall in their old age. The Wall Street Journal reports on the study, which looked at nearly 14,000 women who had survived to age 70 tracking the amount of drinking they had done at midlife, or about age 58. Women who reported having one to two drinks most days of the week had a 28 percent increase in the chance of "successfully surviving" to at least age 70 compared with non-drinkers. The study also revealed that women drinking most days of the week were more likely to be healthier than women who drank one or two days a week, and women who had up to one drink a day had a 20 percent reduction in stroke risk compared with non-drinkers.
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Studies i’ve read contradict this article…life experience REALLY contradicts this article.
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My mom is 86 and had a drink most everyday so I think that is true.
Well it seems my mother was right, she loved her Bombay Sapphire gin and lived to 96! Mind you she also loved Turkish cigarettes, untipped of course. In other words everyone is different. According to the article the study only included women aged over 70. Duh! 100% of them survived to over 70 unless the questioning took the form of one knock for yes and two for no. It goes to prove that 57.432% of statistics are made up!
This is a very interesting notion. Most all of the very old that I have read about consumed a daily drink of Booze. Not too much, but did it daily. There must be something to it. The diets of certain cultures that are somewhat free of the most common disease do as well contain daily consumption of small quantities. Enough evidence to say a small drink a day for your health, but never drink to get drunk. That notion is found even in ancient text. Interesting indeed
Great.
The reduction in the stress of daily living eases the load on the vascular system. “feeling good” is good for the body and the mind but must be kept in moderate proportion
another stupid article, contradicting other research…….i.e., alcohol and breast cancer