Is Liquor good for health ? why?

Answer 1

An alcoholic drink a day can significantly reduce the risk for heart disease in men, a new study finds, but women get almost the same benefit with only one drink a week.
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Prospective Study of Alcohol Drinking Patterns and Coronary Heart Disease in Women and Men (BMJ)

The report, which appears online in the British medical journal BMJ, suggests that for women, alcohol intake is the primary protective factor, while for men, it is drinking frequency.

The Danish study included 27,178 men and 29,875 women volunteers who were free of coronary heart disease at the start of the study. They filled out questionnaires and underwent interviews about their eating and drinking habits, recording how many drinks they had per week. A drink was defined as containing 12 grams of ethanol, a little less than one-half ounce.

The researchers then followed the subjects for an average of 5.7 years. There were 749 coronary heart disease events among the women, and 1,238 among the men. Women consumed an average of 5.5 drinks a week; men, an average of 11.3.

For men, the more they drank, the lower the risk. One drink a week lowered the risk by about 7 percent, two to four drinks by 22 percent and five or six drinks a week by 29 percent. Those who drank every day had a 41 percent lower risk of heart disease than those who did not drink at all. Even among men who had up to 35 drinks per week, the protection persisted.

With women, the trend was different. One drink a week lowered the risk by 36 percent, but daily drinking lowered it by 35 percent. In other words, for women, alcohol consumption had a significant protective effect, but the frequency of drinking had none.

Dr. Morten Gronbaek of the Danish National Institute of Public Health, the study's senior author, said he would not hesitate to recommend a drink a day to certain patients. "If I were talking to a patient, about 50 with a high coronary risk profile, who I knew wasn't at risk for alcohol abuse, and who didn't drink at all, I wouldn't hesitate to tell him that a glass of wine a day might be a good idea," he said. "But people who are light drinkers should certainly not be advised to drink more."

The researchers also stressed that their data said nothing about binge drinking or about the number of drinks per occasion, and Dr. Gronbaek said that drinking was not a substitute for exercise or good diet. "You shouldn't avoid exercise," he said, "and then try to compensate by drinking."

According to the authors, there are several plausible explanations for the effect. Alcohol helps raise the levels of high density lipoprotein or H.D.L. cholesterol and lowers plasma fibrinogen levels, which contribute to blood clotting.

It is not clear why men and women react differently, but the authors suggest that the association between alcohol and coronary heart disease may be modified by menopause. Moderate alcohol consumption may increase estrogen levels, which normally decline at menopause and are known to have a protective effect.

Because only 17 percent of the women in this study were premenopausal, the findings may pertain only to older women.
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Answer 2

There isn't a huge difference between liquor and beer. If anything liquor is probably better because it doesn't have any carbs, while beer has a few. Both are healthy enough in moderation. Water does in fact help your body metabolize alcohol. In fact, a hangover is mostly just severe dehydration. For this reason one might consider beer more healthy than liquor because it has a lot more water in it. There's nothing wrong with doing shots of liquor and drinking water afterwards though. So basically all alcohol is fine in moderation.

Answer 3

Both culturally and legally alcohol is food. 1 However, as long ago as the 1800s, temperance writers insisted that alcohol was not a food. 2 Instead, they described it as a poison that was dangerous to life and health. 3 That long tradition continues to this day. In fact stigmatizing alcoholic beverages and discouraging their use have actually become U.S. federal policy. 4

But the scientific medical fact is clear: drinking alcohol in moderation is associated with better health and greater longevity than is either abstaining or abusing alcohol. 5

Some critics have suggested that moderate drinkers have lower mortality than abstainers because abstainers include alcoholics who have damaged their health and no longer drink. However, even when abstainers are limited to those who have never consumed alcohol (thus excluding alcoholics), the relationship remains. That is, moderate drinkers have lower mortality than abstainers who have never consumed alcohol. 6

Critics have also suggested that the health benefits of alcohol are not in the substance but in the lifestyle of those who drink in moderation. Perhaps moderate drinkers have a better or more healthful lifestyle than do either abstainers or those who abuse alcohol. However, even when such confounding factors as diet, exercise, socio-economic status and income level are accounted for, moderate drinkers still have a lower overall mortality than either abstainers or heavy drinkers.

But which alcoholic beverage is the best choice? Well known medical authority Dr. Dean Edell explains that there are “differences of opinion about whether beer, wine, or liquor offers the quickest route to a longer life. Of ten major studies, one-third found this true for wine, one-third for beer, and one-third for liquor. Most researchers now believe that it is the alcohol in all of them that provides the magic, but they don’t rule out other components of alcoholic beverages.” 7

The bottom line is that abstaining from alcohol is a risk factor associated with poor health and early death. 8
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Answer 4

yes because it reduces a type of cholestrol which is highly responsible for heart attacks,and studies in chernobyl (ukraine-where one nuclear accident had taken place) have shown that people taking red wine were less affected from the hazards of radioactivity.

Answer 5

liquor is good for your health when we take it in a right quantity. ther is a proverb that says "covert all,lose all".

Answer 6

anything under the sun is good for health provided consumed in a limited quantity.

Answer 7

yes if u drink rum shrub it is good for health it will digeste all the food.if you drink indian liquier it not good.

Answer 8

instead of cutting/pasting ENTIRE web page-i will answer in one original word

YES

Answer 9

i have been reading about the benefits of red wine recently. because of the tanins i believe. supposed to have some cancer fighting agents.

Answer 10

any thing in excess is harmful nothing is harmful on earth.we human made it so. harm ness based on survival and accident