The science of drinking: how much alcohol the body tolerates?

The consumption of alcohol is a current usual practice in cultural, so no wonder that science is inclined to study its causes and, above all, its impact on health. Recently two studies were carried about with complementary conclusions. For one thing, scientists from Harvard Medical School collated data from echocardiograms 4,466 people around 70 years with alcohol. According to their findings, published in the journal "Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging" in men consuming more than two drinks per day causes abnormalities in the structure and functioning of the heart. For women, the same problems appeared with a glass per day.Meanwhile, Christopher and Alexander van Tulleken indicator doctors took two drinks per day, and experienced how varied the effects on the body as how to drink the same amount. One of them took a month accurate measurement each day, while the other drank the same amount but all together, one day a week. After a month, the medical tests to verify the state of their livers showed, to the surprise of scientists, that the degree of impairment was the same in both. This result raises questions guides alcohol in the UK, which state that drinking two glasses of wine per day is safe, as it has been shown that actually can be as harmful as a weekly poisoning.

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