Women who Drink Alcohol In Small Number There Benefits

Women who drank 15 grams (15 ml) of alcohol or less every day in middle age may be healthy when parents are healthier than women who did not drink at all, women who consumed more than two drinks a day, or who consume four drinks or more on one time.

These conclusions were derived from research led by Qi Sun from the Harvard School of Public Health and Women's Hospital in Boston, United States, and published in the journal PLoS Medicine.

The study showed that women who regularly consume alcohol in moderate levels at about age 58 years associated with good health. They do not have chronic illnesses like heart disease or diabetes, cognitive impairment and has no physical meaning, and no mental health disorders until the age of 70 years and beyond. The researchers define it as 'successful aging'.

The authors used information from questionnaires given to 121 700 female nurses enrolled in the Nurses Health Study (U.S. Nurses' Health Study) which was initiated in 1976 to assess alcohol consumption in nurses during middle age. The authors include in his analysis that the majority (98.1%) study participants are not heavy drinkers (45 drinks a day) when the middle-aged and check the health condition of 13 984 women aged up to 70 years and over.

After cutting the other factors that may affect health, smoking one of them, the authors found that women who drank 5 grams of alcohol per day had about 20% of health conditions better overall when compared to older who do not drink. In addition, women who drink alcohol regularly have a greater likelihood that much healthier when older than those who indulge occasionally. Compared with women who do not drink, women who drank 5-7 days a week in the medium has the possibility of almost 50% more healthy healthy when older.

"These data suggest that regular consumption of alcohol in middle age may be associated with improved health conditions in moderate levels in women who survive to old age," said researchers from medicalxpress.com seeprti quoted on Thursday (09/08/2011 ).

Dietary guidelines issued in 2010 the U.S. Department of Agriculture noted that the level of alcohol consumption in moderate to one drink per day for women and up to two drinks per day for men can provide health benefits in some people.

"Our data support this recommendation and provide new evidence that the consumption of alcohol in low to moderate level with one to two drinks per day in middle age may be beneficial to overall health in older U.S. women," reads the announcement.