Alcohol makes your heart healthier
As if you needed another excuse to have a drink. Now researchers in Spain have conducted a study of 40 000 people and found that those who drank alcohol regularly tended to have a lower risk of a heart attack than those who were teetotal (particularly for men over the age of 40). And the more you drink, the greater the protective effect.
Don’t forget of course that all the other health risks still apply – so you might not have a heart attack, you’ll just get liver cirrhosis instead, or pancreatitis, a stroke perhaps, or you could develop diabetes, or stomach cancer. So don’t take this as an excuse to have a drink after all.
thanks for the advice
dnt think thats tru.
I thought alcohol was toxic to the heart. Especially at alcoholic levels. I only had chest pains like I was going to die, but that’s ok. I don’t trust Spain, not for this research…not politically, just scientifically, I would need a little more substantiation to make it formidable. That’s all, that’s all!
There may be some truth to that article. However, I don’t think alcohol plays as big a threat to the heart as does being overweight. Now, I’m no doctor and I havent ran studies on the effects of alcohol consumption on the heart. But I do live with an alcoholic. He is 39 yrs old, African (from Kenya), 6′ 1″ tall, 155 pounds. COMPLETELY LEAN WITH NO BODY FAT and has been an alcoholic for most of his life (he began drinking at age 13). The amount of alcohol he consumes on a daily basis would be enough to choke a horse! He consumes 144 ounces of Budweiser Beer PER DAY (24 hour period including the 9 hours he is at his job). He is also a chain smoker (2-3 packs) per day which also began at age 13. A few weeks ago, “Alex” by his own admission “fell down drunk” after leaving a sports bar and injured himself. He was badly bruised and bloody. When he arrived at his job the next morning, he went to the infirmary to get himself checked out. The nurses had trouble taking blood from his veins. Everytime they tried to take blood, his blood would foam. He was told by the doctor that he “didn’t have much blood” which was their explaination for his having a high tolerance for pain. I don’t know about all of you, but that doesnt sound too good to me!! When they finally were able to withdraw blood from in between his fingers, they ran a series of tests to get an accessment of his overall health. His cholestrol was LOW, Blood pressure: LOW, and he was told he had the heart of a physically fit 20 yr old man.
“Alex” is an athlete. An ALCOHOLIC CHAIN SMOKING ATHLETE and has the body of an AberCrombie Fitch male model. He SELDOM EATS because he said he has no appetite and on occassion has to be force fed to keep him from starving himself to death. I have been with him for the past 4 yrs and I have never seen anything like him. He is indeed a classic text book example of a “functioning alcoholic”. His bosses LOVE HIM and I are quite aware of him being an alcoholic. But he covers it up so well and does such a good job at work and gets raving reviews that everyone just turns their heads the other way when it comes to his drinking. So much so that by unanamous vote he was awarded Manager of The Quarter award!!! He’s a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSON AT HOME, HOWEVER, AND GETS NO AWARDS FOR HIS BAD BEHAVIOR OR HIS STINKING THINKING FROM ME. What he has gotten is an occassional kick to the curb. I am truly perplexed at how many people LIKE and ADMIRE him. He is a miserable person to live with and occassionally his “personality disorder” rears it’s ugly head and gets tossed out of bars for being brash and disorderly. But they seem to let him back in a day or two later. As for me, I am a social drinker but I was PERMANENTLY BANNED from what was our usual hangout bar for trying to prevent “Alex” from drinking beyond his 144oz limit. Although it is a well known FACT that “Alex” is an alcoholic and I am his (keeper) Wife, I was told by the owner of the bar that I was not allowed back into his bar because I was “interferring with “Alex’s” right to drink!” The fact that “Alex” is my HUSBAND had no value.
yeah, more like they’re making too much money on him and they see you as getting in the way.
yup… agree with you there Kev.
When my father died the local bars and hostelries put obituaries in the paper saying he was such a warm man, will be sorely missed etc. Um right, it was more like they’d miss his money and his drinking cronies would miss his drunk generosity in buying them all beers.
Godhelpme2, I’ll be very surprised if he keeps going if he’s abusing himself that much. My father was also very well thought of at work/socially but was awful to his family. People can easily present different faces. Get some help for yourself, you don’t need it.
This is an interesting research… Sometimes I wonder what is the purpose of researching the thing like this one..