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"To get rich, never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth."

-Richard Baker, American Congressman

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

To Your Health (that is what people say in most languages, rather than "cheers")

There's a study from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston about the effects of booze on your ticker. Because the study takes only heart attack risk into account (and not cancer or liver disease, for example), the researchers are reluctant to encourage people to pick up drinking. However, Dr. Richard Stein, a clinical professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, often recommends a drink/day for patients who have suffered heart attacks.

From Forbes.com:

"The men who had two drinks a day had the lowest risk for heart attack, while those who didn't drink had the highest risk, the researchers found. Twenty-five percent of the heart attacks were among men who drank less than 5 grams of alcohol a day."

The article also has a link to the American Heart Association's take on the issue, which I have included here.

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