Finally, a Reason to Start Drinking Alcohol

Finally, a Reason to Start Drinking Alcohol

Previous sudies:

Many previous studies have shown that light to moderate drinkers are healthier than teetotalers, but every time, the researchers have cautioned that there is no reason for the abstinent to start drinking.


New studies :

Dr. Dana King of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and colleagues found that non-drinkers who begin taking the occasional tipple live longer and are less likely to develop heart disease. People who started drinking in middle age were 38 percent less likely to have a heart attack or other serious heart event than -- even if they were overweight, had diabetes, high blood pressure or other heart risks.

King's team studied the medical records of 7,697 people between 45 and 64 who began as non-drinkers as part of a study. Over 10 years, 6 percent of these volunteers began drinking,Over the next four years they tracked the new drinkers and when they compared them to the persistent non-drinkers, there was a 38 percent drop in new cardiovascular disease.

This study certainly shifts the balance a little bit between light to moderate drinkers and teetotalers.


But Four Great Points :

1)Recommended amounts equal a drink or two a day by most guidelines
2)There was a much bigger benefit for wine-only drinkers
3)But the findings do not mean people should drink freely
for example the men who had five or more drinks on days they did drink were 30 percent more likely to die of a heart attack or stroke than men who had just one drink a day -- regardless of what their average drinking intake was.
4) their results reinforce the importance of drinking in moderation