To your health!
Posted on 10/24/2006 8:27:10 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Even as studies have consistently found an association between moderate alcohol consumption and reduced heart attack risk in men, an important question has persisted: What if the men who drank in moderation were the same individuals who maintained good eating habits, didn't smoke, exercised and watched their weight - How would you know that their reduced risk of myocardial infarction wasn't the result of one or more of these other healthy habits? A new study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) helps answer this question. Reported in the October 23, 2006 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, the findings show for the first time that among men with healthy lifestyles, those who consumed moderate amounts of alcohol - defined as between one-half and two drinks daily - had a 40 to 60 percent reduced risk of heart attack compared with healthy men who didn't drink at all.
"This latest research speaks to how robust the link is between moderate drinking and heart attack risk," explains lead author Kenneth Mukamal, MD, MPH, an internist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. "The fact that we found the association [between alcohol consumption and heart attack] to be just as strong in this tightly controlled group of men as we've found it to be in more general studies suggests that physicians should not avoid alcohol consumption as a topic for discussion when talking with patients about ways to reduce their risk of myocardial infarction."
(Excerpt) Read more at news-medical.net ...
To your health!
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L'Chaim!
So if I drink heavily, I will live forever, ipso facto.
OK, maybe not. But I will suffer less. :-)
It didn't help my dad. A lifetime as an alcoholic and heart attck #4 nailed him.
It is interesting how a heart attack mimics a person with too much to drink. Puking, holding the chest, staggering, moaning. With both happening at the same time you don't really know if he is just drunk or dieing, that is until you find him dead.
Drink your wine, eat your green leafy vegetables and keep your brain to enjoy your life. :)
Vegetables May Boost Brain Power in Older Adults
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/HealthScout/061023/6102320U.html
Want to preserve your mental edge as you age? Vegetables - particularly green, leafy ones - will do the trick if you eat three servings a day, new research shows.
But the research also suggests that the same effect is not found in those who eat lots of fruit.
"It's a modest effect," said Martha Clare Morris, associate professor at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, and lead author of the study. "People who consumed two or more vegetables a day had a 35 to 40 percent decrease in the decline in thinking ability over six years. That's the equivalent of being five years younger in age."
The study results are published in the Oct. 24 issue of the journal Neurology.
Mmmmm...my daily drink of vodka/cranberry is now like medicine ay? Mix in a litte red wine now and then and my coronary arteries will stay flowing like the Missisippi.
Sorry about your dad.
EVerything in moderation is the key. Just as medicines in some doses help you, in large doses, kill you. Same with alcohol.
But while doctors kept telling everyone that people shouldn't drink at all, and now there is plenty of evidence that is worse, than moderate drinking.
***I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than an arterial angioplasty.***
I just had an angioplasty. I am still alive and well.
Three servings of green leafy veggies a ~day~???
Do they make a liquour of that?
POT liquor! (And, if you don't know what that is...do the research!)
Ouch. Sorry if my comments seemed insensitive.
Some things just aren't funny.
Kudzu likker.
As I am reading the article, maybe it's not the vegetables, but the vitamin E:
""We had found in previous studies that vitamin E in food protected against cognitive decline and the development of Alzheimer's disease," she said.
Her previous research also had shown that consumption of healthy fats, such as the polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats found in foods such as olive oil, were similarly protective.
"When we eat vegetables, we tend to put the good fats on them, such as an oil-based salad dressing on salads, healthy-fat mayonnaise on cole slaw, and healthy-fat margarine on vegetables," Morris said. "Such fats help us to absorb the vitamin E, and perhaps are also beneficial to the brain. So that's one plausible explanation of why vegetables are good for you."
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This is NOT research, if they can't tell for sure whether the vegetables or the oils put on them were the ones that helped. How stupid!
But in general, both vitamin E and vegetables are good for you, but this "research", if you can call it that if not conclusive.
I'm testing out this theory and I'll let you know how it turns out. :)
Clarification: my post 15 refers to the article I opsted in post 7 about green leafyvegetables.
The study about drinking reduces heart attack risk was well done.
do a google on chronic dehydration, iranian doc, batmanheldig says all chronic diseases of old age are caused by lack of water.
Does this mean Ted (hic) Kennedy will be around for a long time? Oops, I missed the word "moderate"....never mind....
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