A study says people who have one alcoholic drink a day are 54 percent less obesity-prone than teetotalers are. (But those with four or more drinks a day are 46 percent more obesity-prone.) Another study indicates that among people who weigh too much or drink too much alcohol, those who drink more than two cups of coffee a day are only half as prone to chronic liver disease. Each study involved more than 8,000 people. Cynical take: Wash out your fat with liquor, then rinse out your liquor with coffee.
From Slate's Human Nature column.
3 comments:
this explains why i am neither obese nor liver prone - tons of coffee and liquor.
i'm glad to hear docs prescribe that.
or something like it :-)
So, what if I drink 2 - 3 drinks a day but only 1 cup of coffee?
Don't you love studies like that where they have all kinds of juicy correlations,just waiting for someone to say its cause and effect? I think I'll stick to the no-alcohol, skip the coffee diet.
Then again, I do have a weight problem I'm trying to manage...
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