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Red wine against colon cancer -

Your risk for colon cancer increases in your 50s and redoubles every 10 years after that. A 2006 State University of New York study found that drinking three or more glasses of red wine per week decreases your risk by 68 percent. White wine doesn’t reduce the risk.
Popularity: 12% [?]

Popularity: 12% [?]

Reduce kidney cancer risk, drink alcohol -

A study in the Journal of The National Cancer Institute has shown that having one or two alcoholic drinks every day can decrease the risk of kidney cancer. The study showed that moderate drinkers were 28% less likely to develop kidney cancer than non-drinkers. The researchers suspect that alcohol may reduce the risk of kidney […]

Popularity: 9% [?]

Alcohol certainly doesn’t make you smarter -

Dutch pharmacologist Suzanne Bijl researched the long term effects of social alcohol drinking on 59 healthy adult males.
The conclusions:

More than 15 glasses per week: negative effects on completing complex tasks, like thinking up verbs.
More than 30 glasses per week: more complex tasks are executed with more difficulty.
More than 60 glasses per week: the changes in […]

Popularity: 9% [?]

Alcohol consumption and life expectancy -

What is the line between healthy alcohol use and alcohol abuse? Italians researchers say it lies at three consumptions per day. They calculated the effect of alcohol on the risk of premature death:

1 consumption per day
-15%

2 consumptions per day
-9%

3 consumptions per day
0%

4 consumptions per day
+8%

5 consumptions per day
+15%

6 consumptions per day
+22%

Popularity: 7% [?]

Popularity: 7% [?]