Healthy Drinking Update
Here is the section where I will post updates on research into the positive healty benefits of responsible drinking.
July 29, 2009
Wine May Lessen Radiation Therapy Side Effects
A clinical study by an Italian oncology center has found that women who drink wine while undergoing radiation treatment see fewer side effects than women who don’t drink. The Radiotherapy and Palliative Care Unit, along with the research department at the Catholic University of Campobasso, in southern Italy’s Molise region, examined the extent of tissue damage on 348 women who were being treated for breast cancer. The findings are slated for publication in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology.
8 June 2009: Live longer
Moderate drinking can have positive effects for cardiovascular health. Dutch researchers recently concluded that half a glass of wine a day can boost a man’s life expectancy by as much as five years. While other forms of alcohol did not have the same effect, men who drank only wine lived about 2.5 years longer than those who drank beer and spirits and almost 5 years longer than those who drank no alcohol.
The results of the study of 1373 randomly selected men over a period of 40 years in the Dutch town of Zutphen born between 1900 and 1920 was recently published in the Journal of Epidemilogy and Public Health.
One of the reasons for selecting these men for the study was that their alcohol drinking habits changed dramatically during the period of the study from just 2% drinking wine at the outset to 44% at the end if 2000.
Moderate alcohol consumption is believed to benefit cardiovascular health by dissolving fatty deposits that can cause heart attack or stroke.
