[kj] OT: Drinking leads to brain shrinkage

[countessghoulita at aol.com]

 Karen, thank you so much for your kind words, I really appreciate.


 


 

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From: Karen Weil <karen.weil at sddt.com>
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Countess: All my best to your mother; hope she is 
doing OK. 


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Regards,


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Karen 



  
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  countessghoulita at aol.com 

  
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Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 6:28 
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Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Drinking leads to 
  brain shrinkage

  



  
I do not know whom I should believe. If you go to the deep Italian 
  countryside, you would see old 
  people still in great mental shape, maybe fragile, but they are really fine. 
  They drink their glass of wine per meal, and they are 
  fine.

Unfortunately, I knew people who died of Lou Gehrig disease. They 
  would get up at 5 am, run for one hour, go back home, shower, have breakfast 
  and go to work. They had a very healthy life (no high blood pressure, low 
  cholesterol, no drinking/smoking), and yet they got that disease. And it was 
  sad to see them in that condition. My mom's boss died of Lou Gehrig's 12 years 
  ago.

I believe that everything in moderation cannot harm. 
  


  

Alas, years ago I read that 
  people who would not consume enough vegetables, suffer from high blood 
  pressure, have high cholesterol, don't have/or have poor education, don't have 
  an active life, are more subject to develop alzheimer's. My mom is sick with 
  ALZ, and she always had a healthy diet and always had a hell of brains (and 
  challenging jobs). So, I truly do not believe in all theories, as they are 
  based on statistics that may not consider some categories of people the way 
  they should.

That's my 2-cents....



  


-----Original Message-----
From: B. Oliver Sheppard 
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Subject: [kj] OT: Drinking leads to brain shrinkage


  
Very 
  depressing news if true! - Oliver?
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http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/14/alcohol-brain.html?
?
Drinking 
  leads to shrinking, brain study suggests?
Last Updated: Tuesday, 
  October 14, 2008 | 2:59 PM ET ?
CBC News?
?
Alcohol 
  may have a protective effect on the heart, but not the brain, a study 
  suggests. ?
Consuming even small amounts of alcohol seems to shrink 
  the brain, researchers have found.?
?
Moderate alcohol 
  consumption has been linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, leading 
  researchers to investigate whether it also slows aging-related declines in 
  brain volume.?
?
But it turned out that people who drink more 
  showed more brain shrinkage, Carol Ann Paul of Wellesley College in 
  Massachusetts and her colleagues report in the October issue of Archives of 
  Neurology.?
?
"It's been known that people who drink a lot 
  have a decline in brain volume. What I was looking for was a protective effect 
  in people who drink one to seven glasses a week," Paul 
  says.?
?
"My expectation is that it would [be protective]. And 
  it didn't turn out that way."?
?
As we age, our brain volume 
  decreases at an estimated rate of 1.9 per cent per decade, the study notes. At 
  the same time, the brain accumulates white-matter lesions that may occur in 
  cases of dementia and cognitive decline.?
?
The researchers 
  analyzed data on 1,839 American adults aged 33 to 88 who reported their 
  alcohol consumption and had magnetic resonance imaging scans to examine brain 
  volume, along with medical exams.?
?
None of the participants 
  in the continuing Framingham Offspring Study showed evidence of clinical 
  dementia or stroke.?
?
Participants were divided into five 
  groups: abstainers, former drinkers, and low, moderate and high 
  consumers.?
?
No protective effect 
  found?
?
Among those who drank the most, more than 14 drinks a 
  week, the brain was one per cent smaller on average, compared with abstainers, 
  the researchers found, after correcting for head size, age, sex, education, 
  height, body mass index and stroke risk.?
?
"In contrast to 
  studies on cardiovascular disease, this study found that moderate alcohol 
  consumption was not protective against normal age-related differences in total 
  brain volume," the study concluded.?
?
"Rather, the more 
  alcohol consumed, the smaller the total brain volume."?
?
"The 
  public health effect of this study gives a clear message about the possible 
  dangers of drinking alcohol," the study's authors 
  wrote.?
?
Almost 38 per cent of men and more than 44 per cent 
  of women fell into the low consumption category, having one to seven drinks 
  per week.?
?
While men were more likely to drink alcohol, the 
  association between drinking and loss of brain volume was stronger in women, 
  perhaps because women may be more susceptible to the effects of alcohol, the 
  researchers say.?
?
The team called for more long-term studies 
  to confirm the findings and determine what the consequences there are for 
  smaller brain volumes, if any.?
?
The harmful effects of 
  alcohol abuse include damage to the liver, brain and other 
  organs.?
?
With files from Reuters 
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