Women: Drink Moderately, Gain Less Weight

Filed in archive Obesity , Studies , Weight Loss , Women's Health on March 11, 2010

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Hear ye ladies! What's recently published at the Archives of Internal Medicine requires toasting for cheers:

Healthy-weight women who drink a light to moderate amount of alcohol - no more than two servings a day of red wine, white wine, beer or liquor - tend to gain less weight over time than non-drinkers.

Warning: don't binge on alcohol just yet. The key words are healthy-weight women and light to moderate amount of alcohol.

According to cardiologist Lu Wang, lead researcher on the study and an instructor at Brigham and Women's Hospital:

"Women who drink moderate amounts of alcohol tend to eat less food, particularly carbohydrates"

Well...that's certainly good news, isn't it? So...drink moderately from now on.