More good news for women who drink: Tufts University researcher Katherine L. Tucker, PhD, report that postmenopausal women who consumed two drinks a day or more had 5%-8.3% better hip and spine bone-mineral density (BMD) than nondrinkers. Men who drank one or two alcoholic beverages a day had 2.4%-4.5% better hip BMD than their teetotaling peers.”It is very confusing for people because alcohol has such diverse effects on different things,”she says. “Nonetheless, she says the effect of alcohol on bone density detected in this new study is “larger than what we see for any single nutrient, even for calcium. It’s not ambiguous. It’s very clear.”
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