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FOXNEWS That after work glass of red wine may be less medicinal than you thought. Researchers have found that drinking even moderate amounts of alcohol shrinks the brain. Brain volume naturally decreases by nearly 2 percent per decade as people age, but scientists had speculated that moderate alcohol intake could slow this process, by improving heart function and blood flow. However, U.S. researchers have dealt a blow to that theory, finding a "significant negative linear relationship" between the amount of alcohol someone consumes and the space their brain takes up. While men were more likely to drink alcohol, the researchers examined magnetic resonance imaging scans of drinkers' and non-drinkers' brains, and found the association was stronger in women. They speculated this could be due to women's smaller stature and greater tendency to feel alcohol's effects. The study, which was based on an analysis of drinking habits and brain volume in nearly 2,000 U.S. adults between 1999 and 2001, found that while the brains of people who never touched alcohol occupied nearly 78.6 percent of their cranial space on average, this dropped to about 78.2 percent in people who previously drank but had since quit, and dropped again, to just under 77.8 percent, for moderate drinkers. Heavy drinkers were lower still, at 77.2 percent. "The public health effect of this study gives a clear message about the possible dangers of drinking alcohol," the authors concluded in the study, published yesterday in the Archives of Neurology. "This study suggests that, unlike the associations with cardiovascular disease, alcohol consumption does not have any protective effect on brain volume." |
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10/14/2008 8:25 pm |
Real bad news.
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 10/14/2008 9:51 pm |
Real bad news. 
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10/15/2008 12:21 am |
lol i know some men cant get their other head (( their little soilder)) to stand up and salut them lol so yeahhhh alcohol do have some effects on the head <<< lol hehehe get it 
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10/15/2008 12:37 am |
Don't believe everything you read! Look at the statistics... 2000 people out of 6.6 billion. I really hate when people quote statistics; it skews everything in the direction the person writing the article wants you to believe. I'm trying to make a point with certain articles I post on IFF. On that article, you can ask a lot of questions.. It is surprising that research projects which don't establish anything concrete gets funding. VASHALAN
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10/15/2008 1:21 am |
Candy......I love red wine, and if that shrinks my brain...Then I don't mind being a kid  Rains...Little soldier??? you will always get a salute
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10/15/2008 1:40 am |
wowsers. no more drinking for me.    
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10/15/2008 3:55 am |
I heard that brain shrinks everytime you stop using it. Theory of extinction... you loose those organs which you stop using... so if you need to have a brain, you have start using it.
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10/15/2008 8:36 am |
Don't believe everything you read! Look at the statistics... 2000 people out of 6.6 billion. I really hate when people quote statistics; it skews everything in the direction the person writing the article wants you to believe. I'm trying to make a point with certain articles I post on IFF.
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10/15/2008 6:39 pm |
lol i know some men cant get their other head (( their little soilder)) to stand up and salut them lol so yeahhhh alcohol do have some effects on the head <<< lol hehehe get it 
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10/15/2008 6:41 pm |
When someone parades their 'facts', they tell you what they want you to hear. Look for what they don't want to tell. That is more interesting. And that is where the questions come. On that article, you can ask a lot of questions.. It is surprising that research projects which don't establish anything concrete gets funding. 
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10/15/2008 6:53 pm |
Candy......I love red wine, and if that shrinks my brain...Then I don't mind being a kid Rains...Little soldier??? you will always get a salute 
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10/15/2008 6:54 pm |
wowsers. no more drinking for me.  You are always welcome to come drinking with me.
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10/15/2008 7:37 pm |
I heard that brain shrinks everytime you stop using it. Theory of extinction... you loose those organs which you stop using... so if you need to have a brain, you have start using it. 
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10/15/2008 7:38 pm |
This is a great suggestion. I shall try to bear this in mind always.
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10/16/2008 11:17 am |
HIII..CCCC!!! ...TO YOU TOOO.....GAL..... ........................................................cutessyy....for sure.....
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10/18/2008 9:05 pm |
hmm.. doesnt it shrink your pee pee too? or am i thinking about pot? 
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10/19/2008 6:47 pm |
hmm.. doesnt it shrink your pee pee too? or am i thinking about pot? :>
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