Drinking Fights Obesity!
Perusing the many and highly varied articles available at my fingertips this morning via the internet, I stumbled upon this heartening story. In fact, this transcends being a mere story and jumps straight to the realm of truth, of science! Of course, as with all surveys, the findings are correlative and not definitive, but the trend is a happy one.
According to the March 8 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, a recent study has shown that middle-aged women who drink 2 alcoholic drinks a day are less likely to become obese than are non-drinkers. This study has spanned nearly 13 years at the time of this follow-up, beginning with just short of 20,000 women of good health and normal weight in their late 30′s. Over this 13 year period the study has observed “an inverse association between amount of alcohol consumedd and weight gained”.
Apparently red wine decreases the risk of obesity the most, followed by beer and liquor, with white wine having the weakest correlation! We all knew that red wine was great for all sorts of health reasons (probably), but beer and liquor are good, too! I mean, who knew? I’m pretty happy about this new development. Let’s just hope my healthy head start will only help!