If you’re looking for anti aging tips for staying young, you’ll be surprised to find the latest weapon in that struggle is not a new procedure or injection… it’s a glass of red wine every day according to Richard A. Baxter, MD, a Seattle plastic surgeon and author of Age Gets Better [...]
We’ve all heard that drinking red wine is good for your heart, now two studies have given experts important clues on just how these richly colored wines deliver their heart healthy benefits along with the great taste. The two studies along with an accompanying editorial appear in the July 2010 issue of [...]
While no one is going to tell non drinkers to start drinking alcohol, there’s a growing body of evidence that light to moderate drinking might actually have a protective effect on the heart, perhaps even prevent heart related deaths. The results of this latest work “provide some of the strongest evidence to [...]
The numbers are tough to ignore. Six in ten American drink alcohol regularly, while only three in ten get regular exercise according to an annual study on health behaviors in the U.S., just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report covers a range of both good and bad health [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The miserable hangover that follows a night of fun isn’t just a part of holiday celebrations, but can happen any time of year.
If you’re trying to ease the discomfort to come, research to be published in the March 2010 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that drinking bourbon brings more hangover pain than [...]
Contrary to the name the protruding belly has been given, beer drinkers are no more likely to have a big belly than those who drink wine or hard liquor are. So, what causes a “Beer Belly”?
Drinking at least 80 grams of alcohol at one time, at least once a month, shows up [...]
While drinking alcohol to excess leads to health problems in multiple organ systems, you’ve probably also heard of red wine health benefits when drunk in moderation.
Long standing research backs up the benefits, but until now researchers couldn’t explain precisely how this might work.
“Reports on the benefits of red wine are almost two centuries old,” points [...]
A new study suggests that about a half a glass of wine each day might just be good for you, increasing life span by as much as 5 years.
The findings of the Dutch research appear online in the April 2009 issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health and are the first to suggest [...]
Men and postmenopausal women who have a drink or two a day seem to have stronger bones than either nondrinkers or heavy drinkers according to the first-ever study to look at bone density and intake of different types of alcohol – beer, wine and hard liquor. It appears that drinking alcohol is a good idea [...]
If your face gets red, flushed and hot when you’ve had a few drinks after work, at dinner, or with friends, a research review conducted by experts from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and Japan’s Kurihama Alcohol Center sends a warning about a link with cancer of the esophagus.
It seems that [...]
