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Drinking alcohol could help women stay slim. Women who drink a couple of glasses of red wine, beer or spirits a
day are better at keeping the pounds off than women who do not drink at
all, according to a study published Monday.
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston asked more
than 19,000, average-weight U.S. women aged 39 or older how many
alcoholic beverages they typically drank in a day, and then tracked the
women for around 13 years.
The largest single group — 7,346 women or just over 38 percent —
said they didn’t drink a drop, according to the study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a publication of the American Medical Association.
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