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The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has completed an extensive review of current scientific knowledge about the health effects of moderate alcohol consumption. It found that the lowest death rate from all causes occurs at the level of one to two drinks per day. That is, moderate drinkers have the greatest longevity.
The NIAAA’s conclusion that moderate drinking is ben...
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The risks and benefits of drinking alcohol
Scientists, doctors and the media have taken two sides to the debate over the positive and negative effects of alcohol consumption. While excessive drinking can lead to a number of health problems, recent studies have revealed that a daily moderate intake of alcohol may decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes and may help to ward of Al...
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Of those who said that drinking was good for your health, 35% believed that everyone benefited from drinking alcohol.
The most popular benefit attributed to alcohol was that it relieves stress.
But the dangers of excessive drinking were also acknowledged, with 68% of those surveyed saying that it could cause high blood pressure.
Myth
The survey was carried out by the Health Educati...
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Studies which have reported that people who drink alcohol moderately have fewer heart attacks than those who abstain may have been flawed because the abstainers used in most of those studies were people who quit drinking for health or age reasons, according to an international team of researchers.
Researchers from the United States, Canada, and Australia looked at 54 studies that examined the lin...
(Post date: 2006-10-28)
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Alcohol is the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the medical world: Drinking too much causes serious problems, while drinking a little may help many people’s health.
How many drinks provide just the benefits and not the harm? It depends on whether a person is most at risk of heart disease, diabetes or breast cancer. But there is one bottom line: Five or six drinks only on Saturday night will provide ...
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