Tag: alcohol

Moderate Alcohol Consumption Lowers Risk of Oral Cancer in Postmenopausal Women

It has been well documented that alcohol consumption is a strong risk factor for oral cancer, as well as other upper alimentary tract cancers, especially if it is combined with smoking.  Alcoholic beverages are chronic irritants to the throat, specifically…

Wine Preferences are Dictated by Past Alcohol Consumption Patterns

For nearly 30 years, research has suggested that there is a learning curve of wine preferences, starting off with new wine drinkers consuming sweeter wines and lower alcohol white wines, and eventually moving toward more complex red wines.  More current…

Does Alcohol Consumption Affect the Risk of Dementia from Alzheimer’s Disease?

For today’s post, we’ll be examining a relatively brief study published earlier in 2011 regarding alcohol consumption and its effects on incident and Alzheimer’s dementia.  Compared to other studies I’ve reviewed in the past, this one is much shorter, but…

Wine Consumption and the Obesity Epidemic: Linked? Or Unrelated?

Over the past few decades, we’ve seen a tremendous increase in the obesity rates, not only in the United States, but around the world as well.  In the United States, roughly 34% of the population is obese, with at least…