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People Who Drink This Every Day Less Prone To Dementia

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People in the study also lived longer who drank this every day.

Older people who regularly consume alcohol are more likely to reach 85-years-old without dementia, new research finds.

Those drinking moderate to heavy amounts of alcohol were twice as likely to be cognitively healthy as non-drinkers.

Moderate drinking was defined as around two drinks a day for men under 65, and one for women.

Heavy drinking was defined as around four drinks a day for men under 65, and two for women.

The limits for people over 65 are a little lower.

Over these levels is considered excessive.

Drinking was also linked to reduced mortality, said Dr Linda McEvoy, who led the study:


The conclusions come from a study that followed 1,344 older adults over 29 years.

Dr Linda McEvoy said:


One of the difficulties with these kinds of studies is that they are based on statistical associations.

That means that it can be difficult to say that drinking alcohol is really causing these cognitive benefits.

However, Erin Richard, the study’s first author, said:


However, it is not a recommendation for everyone to drink.


For these people, drinking can have negative consequences.”

The study was published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (Richard et al., 2017).