Hey ladies, I found a reason for us to drink!!
According to a reporter for HealthDay News, new research has found that women who drank the equivalent of one to two drinks a day (wine, beer, or spirits) were least likely to gain weight. I’m a beer girl myself.
Dr. Lu Wang, an epidemiologist with the division of preventive medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, stated that their study results showed that middle-age and older women who have normal body weight initially and consume light-to-moderate amounts of alcohol, could maintain their drinking habits without gaining more weight, compared with similar women who did not drink any alcohol.
The findings are published in the March 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
The study consisted of 19,220 women, 39 years or older, and lasted an average of 13 years. All participants started the study with a normal body-mass index.
The researchers said that they were not able to draw a conclusion about heavy drinkers because there were so few in the study. The heavy drinkers also tended to smoke, indicating they had very different lifestyles from the others.
So anyway, drink up ladies!!
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