REAL LIFE NEWS: SEE, I TOLD YOU DRINKING (IN MODERATION) WAS GOOD FOR YOU!
by Hazed
Another study has come out which confirms previous findings, that moderate drinking has benefits – more so than not drinking at all.
A study shows that the risk of dementia increases for middle-aged people if they drink too much (more than 14 units a week), as you would expect, but it also increases if they abstain altogether.
Researchers followed over 9,000 British civil servants who were aged between 35 and 55 in 1985. They had all signed up to a long-term investigation into how work, stress and lifestyle affected their health. One of the diseases the scientists were interested in was dementia.
The participants had their alcohol consumption tracked over the course of the 17 years that the study ran, by answering regular questionnaires.
At the end of the study, the health of the participants was followed up and over a mean period of 23 years there were 397 cases of dementia, diagnosed at an average age of 76.
Those that did not drink at all had a higher chance of getting dementia than those who drank between 1 and 14 units a week – but only if the booze the moderate drinkers drank was wine. To make things more confusing, beer-drinkers didn’t see the same effect.
So the moral is: if you want to stave of dementia, drink a little, and make it wine not beer.
Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/02/uk_booze_study/
