Disease Prevention
Light drinking may cut diabetes risk
Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 3rd, 2003
The Harvard University findings involved 109,690 women ages 25 to 42 years who took part in a continuing study of nurses' health. During 10 years of follow-up, women who had about half a drink to two drinks a day were 58% less likely than nondrinkers to develop type 2 diabetes, also called adult-onset diabetes. Conversely, those who had more than two drinks of hard liquor a day faced more than double the risk of nondrinkers. Previous studies in men also linked heavy drinking with an increased diabetes risk.
The study appeared in the...
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