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...anyone trying to lose weight, one of the first indulgences to get cut from their diet is alcohol. After all, alcohol packs 7 kcal/g - a good-size glass of wine contains more than 150 calories - an extravagance that could stymie efforts to slim down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Women Who Drink Tend to Be Thinner | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...maybe it's time to put that wineglass back on the table. New findings from researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston reveal that women who drink moderately are less likely to gain weight over time than those who don't. Before you start stocking your kitchen with vodka instead of vegetables, however, experts caution that the relationship between alcohol and weight may not be that simple. (See 10 myths about dieting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Women Who Drink Tend to Be Thinner | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...Wang, preventive-health experts at Brigham conducted the first long-term study of women's drinking habits and weight gain. The study involved 19,220 women over the age of 38 who were of normal weight. Researchers asked the women about their alcohol consumption over the past year and recorded how much of four different types of alcoholic beverages they consumed - beer, red wine, white wine and liquor. The researchers measured the average ethanol content of each beverage and then calculated each volunteer's average alcohol intake; they also weighed each woman five times over the course of the follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Women Who Drink Tend to Be Thinner | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...women consuming the highest amount of alcohol per day (more than two drinks daily) were 30% less likely to be overweight and nearly 70% less likely to be obese than nondrinkers, the team found. "We certainly don't want to encourage nondrinkers to adopt alcohol as a method for weight control, but we were surprised by the strength of the association," says Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's and a co-author of the study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. (See the top 10 bad beverage ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Women Who Drink Tend to Be Thinner | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...domestic-policy cluster have less input, and less of a platform, in determining and selling Administration policies than their counterparts at State and Defense. Finding the right balance - giving the domestic Cabinet enough influence, but not too much - is tough, but Obama, like Bush, has placed too little weight on the side of the Secretaries. Potent and active Education Secretary Arne Duncan is an exception that illustrates what the President could be doing with the rest of the team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Is Making the Same Mistakes as Bush | 3/7/2010 | See Source »

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