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To drink or not to drink...That′s the question!
How often and how much is good to drink, it is hard to say exactly. It depends on various factors, but one thing is for sure: five or six drinks only on Saturday night will provide no benefits, while a drink or two a night might.
Take care
Drinking is most at risk of heart disease, diabetes or breast cancer. People are vulnerable to more than one disease as they age. A 50-year-old woman with breast cancer in the family might get very different advice on alcohol than one who′s pre-diabetic with high cholesterol.
Alcoholism still remains a major health problem and people with liver disease may not tolerate even moderate drinking.
Drinking habits
How much alcohol people can consume must be customized by their age, gender and overall medical history.
If you known cases of chronically disease in your family than you should not be drinking much alcohol.
But, as an advice consuming two drinks a day for men and one a day for women is linked to lower mortality and unlikely to harm. Men shouldn′t exceed four drinks on any day, and women three.
How often?
Studies show that for people 40 or older, consuming one to four drinks daily significantly reduces the risk of heart disease. In contrary, five or more drinks daily markedly increase heart risk.
So frequency seems to be the key. If you consume smaller amounts several times a week (one or two daily or every other day) is most heart-protective. It helps raise levels of the body′s so-called good cholesterol (HDL type) and to thin blood.
So, how much is a drink a day?
- 150 ml of wine
- 360 ml of beer or
- 45 ml of distilled spirits
[Author]
Alexandra Popa