Light Drinking ‘Boosts Life Expectancy’
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Drinking in careful moderation could hold life-extending benefits, according to research conducted by Dutch scientists.
In a study due to be published in the British Medical Journal, the findings of a 40-year analysis of drinking habits are discussed.
More than 1,300 men took part in the testing, which assessed their life expectancy at age 50 and their cardiovascular health.
These were compared with the amount of alcoholic beverages the men had drunk over the period since their previous examination in the years between 1960 and 2000.
Among the drinkers, those who consumed more than 20 g of alcohol on a typical day were found to have a slightly lower life expectancy than their counterparts.
However, light drinkers - between 0 and 20 g per day - were seen to experience an average of a two-year increase in life expectancy.
The findings take into account other potential factors, including weight, diet, serious illnesses and smoking habits.
For wine-drinkers - regardless of social class and lifestyle factors - the benefits were even greater at around 2.5 extra years of life.
However, both red wine and white wine were recently highlighted by New York University researchers as posing the risk of staining teeth.
The scientists explained that red wine - which contains chromogen - is the greater risk, but claimed that their findings indicated white wine can also cause stains to darken.