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With colleagues at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the Harvard researchers found that a small amount of alcohol each day can reduce women’s risk of experiencing cognitive decline in later years...
...scientists compiled data from 11,000 nurses between the ages of 70 and 81 about drinking habits and cognitive ability. The women were divided into three groups based on their daily consumption of alcohol: those who drank one to 14.9 grams of wine, beer or liquor per day, those who drank up to twice that dosage and those who drank none at all. Cognitive tests were conducted on the women in 1999 and 2001. The large sample size ensured that factors such as age, exercise habits, cholesterol levels and high blood pressure would be compensated for in the analysis...
Francine Grodstein, associate professor in the medical school’s Department of Epidemiology and an author of the study, said that the findings demonstrated the health benefits of consuming alcohol, including decreased risk of stroke...
Despite the health benefits of consuming a small quantity of alcohol each day, medical professionals are reluctant to prescribe alcohol as part of individuals’ diets, Grodstein said. She added that some people have an undiscovered predisposition to alcohol that could cause them to drink to excess...
...very hard for people to differentiate between a little and a lot” of alcohol, Grodstein said. “When you look at the individual person, everyone reacts to alcohol a little bit differently...