一項在美國波士頓針對一萬九千多名中等身材、39歲以上的女性，長達十三年的調查發現適量地飲酒有助女性保持身材。而效果最佳的酒類為紅酒。

這項調查顯示：美國39歲以上的女性中最多的人數的族群是滴酒不沾的，高達38%。其次是喝1/3杯五盎司杯的紅酒，或1/3十二盎司杯的啤酒。再次為，一杯五盎司杯的紅酒，或一杯十二盎司杯的啤酒，或一小杯(盎司杯)的烈酒占20%。6%是喝兩杯，兩杯以上的只有3%。


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Drinking Alcohol Could Help Women Stay Slim      
A glass a day could keep excessive weight gain at bay

Mon Mar 8, 2010 05:20 PM ET | content provided by AFP       
      
THE GIST:       
       
Moderate alcohol consumption could prevent excessive weight gain.       
The best drink for keeping the pounds off was red wine.       
Teetotalers were the most likely to gain weight.       

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.       

The second biggest group -- 6,312 women or nearly a third of those surveyed -- reported drinking the equivalent of around a third of a five-ounce glass of wine or a third of a 12-ounce beer. They did not explain how they managed to do so.       


Twenty percent of the women said they drank the equivalent of up to a glass of wine, a 12-ounce beer, or a single-shot drink made with 80-proof spirits, while six percent said they had up to two drinks a day and three percent had more than two.       


Over the 13-year follow-up period, the women who did not drink at all gained the most weight, and the women who had the equivalent of two drinks a day were the least likely to pack on pounds.       

The best drink for keeping the pounds off was red wine, but all four types of tipple included in the study -- red or white wine, beer and spirits -- showed the same "inverse association between alcohol intake and risk of becoming overweight or obese," the study found.   


The authors cautioned, however, against making recommendations on alcohol use as a tool against obesity, given the potential medical and psycho-social problems associated with drinking.       

The women's alcohol intake was recorded in grams of alcohol.       

A five-ounce (150 ml) glass of wine, 12-ounce beer or one mixed drink made with a single, 1.5-ounce shot of 80-proof alcohol all contain around 14 grams of pure alcohol and are considered "standard drink sizes" in the United States, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).


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