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What do you favor more: your heart or your brain? This seems to be a question to ponder on, when you read new health findings on wine drinking.
For years we’ve heard about all the benefits wine drinking brings.
Some studies disputing this claim were published earlier by CNN, but were given very little attention.
It said “…any benefit from light to moderate drinking is probably small and unlikely to outweigh the harm to health caused by alcohol.”
“While moderate to heavy drinking is probably coronary-protective, any benefit will be overwhelmed by the known harms,” say Dr. Jackson’s team.
…If so, the public health message is clear. Do not assume there is a window in which the health benefits of alcohol are greater than the harms — there is probably no free lunch.”
The new study is more particular:
“Drinking too much wine damages the brain more than beer or spirits, scientists have discovered.
…The ground-breaking study shows that the hippocampus, the part of the brain involved in memory, spatial tasks and many other functions, was more than 10 per cent smaller in those whose tipple was wine than in those who favoured beer.”
What about beer? “One theory is that there may be something in beer that partially protects the brain from the damage caused by wine.”
This new study is about the impact of the alcoholic beverage chosen and was conducted among the patients with alcohol dependence. Read more on it at Independent
Shall we listen? Shall we dismiss this info? Shall we follow our intuition?
Too many confusing studies, but moderation is still seems to be the key.
