on Jun 9th, 2006Heart Disease - I’ll Drink to that!
For those feminists who want to believe women are equal to men, sorry, science tells a different story. Women require less than men to lower their risk of heart disease. So when cocktail hour rolls around, please, don’t be a nag, it’s for men’s health.
An alcoholic drink a day can significantly reduce the risk for heart disease in men, a new study finds, but women get almost the same benefit with only one drink a week. Prospective Study of Alcohol Drinking Patterns and Coronary Heart Disease in Women and Men (BMJ). The report, which appears online in the British medical journal BMJ, suggests that for women, alcohol intake is the primary protective factor, while for men, it is drinking frequency.
For Heart Health, Liquor Is Quicker for Women and Slower for Men
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
New York Times, June 6, 2006