[MKOB] Fwd: HAVE ONE FOR ME.

[Larry Hartzog]

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> One Drink a Day Tied to Lower Death Risk
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> NY TIMES
> March 31, 2009
> Vital Signs
> Prevention: By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
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> For people over 55, an alcoholic drink a day reduces the risk of  
> death, a new study has found, but having one drink or less a week is  
> no help at all.
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> Many studies have found health benefits in moderate alcohol  
> consumption, but the effect has been unclear because people who  
> drink moderately tend to be healthy to begin with.
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> But this prospective study, in the March issue of The Journal of the  
> American Geriatrics Society, included more than 12,000 people,  
> followed them for four years and controlled for factors including  
> sex, race, smoking, obesity, cancer, heart disease, recent heart  
> attack, angina, physical function and socioeconomic status.
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> After all these variables were accounted for, moderate alcohol  
> consumption was associated with a 28 percent reduction in the risk  
> for mortality compared with not drinking. But there was no advantage  
> in drinking one drink or less a week, and those who had more than  
> three drinks a day increased their risk by 11 percent.
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> Dr. Sei J. Lee, the lead author and a geriatrician at the San  
> Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, said that he was not  
> prepared to advise nondrinkers to take up drinking and that the  
> study supported federal guidelines for alcohol consumption. “There  
> are other things you can do that we know are helpful and have a  
> lower chance of harming you, like getting more exercise,” he said.
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