Want to live longer? Toss back a few cocktails
Alcohol in moderation may extend life span, researchers find
Not that I needed an excuse anyway… (might help to convince the wife, though…)
Moderate drinking may lengthen your life, while too much may shorten it, researchers from Italy report. Their conclusion is based on pooled data from 34 large studies involving more than 1 million people and 94,000 deaths.
According to the data, drinking a moderate amount of alcohol — up to four drinks per day in men and two drinks per day in women — reduces the risk of death from any cause by roughly 18 percent, the team reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
That’s where the good news ends, so I’m cutting it off right here. If you really want the rest of it, click here
Not that I needed an excuse anyway… (might help to convince the wife, though…)
Moderate drinking may lengthen your life, while too much may shorten it, researchers from Italy report. Their conclusion is based on pooled data from 34 large studies involving more than 1 million people and 94,000 deaths.
According to the data, drinking a moderate amount of alcohol — up to four drinks per day in men and two drinks per day in women — reduces the risk of death from any cause by roughly 18 percent, the team reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
That’s where the good news ends, so I’m cutting it off right here. If you really want the rest of it, click here
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