Drinking Alcohol as Weight Loss Strategy?
Posted on Wed, Jul 30th 2008, 09:03
Article categorized under "Health Tips"
 | Do you want to lose weight? Do you want to improve the chances of your heart not attacking you anytime within the next decade or so? Do you want to have a little drink on the side while you’re at it, just to celebrate? Well, you just might be in luck. A recent study concluded and published by the European Heart Journal has put in two weight loss tips to the already expanding how-to list. The first one, exercise, has been in that list for as long as the list has been in existence, but each study into weight loss just seems to make its role that much more prominent. The other one, however, is a fresh concept. It turns out that moderate alcohol consumption is actually a good thing not only for those who are trying to have a healthy heart, but also for shedding a pound or two that you don’t really need. In fact, according to the study, folks who didn’t exercise of drink were likely to eventually develop some form of heart disease. The combination of exercise and moderate drinking, first and foremost, seemed to really do wonders for reducing the risks of heart disease. However, the study mentioned that it didn’t so much have to be exercise as it was regular bouts of physical activity. In simpler terms, for these new weight loss tips, you don’t always have to be at the treadmill or lifting weights in the gym. Long walks or early morning jogs, according to the data obtained by the Dutch team, was enough, so long as it was a regular activity. Obviously, more strenuous activities burned more energy, but were not absolutely necessary for dropping a few pounds within a reasonable timeframe. |
As for the alcohol component of these new weight loss tips, aside from being in moderation, the study found that the best results were obtained if the person only took alcoholic beverages on a weekly basis. In other words, no nightly trips to the local bar night after night. No differentiation was made between hard drinks, wines, and other alcoholic beverages. It should be noted, however, that wines – red wine in particular, according to many nutrition experts – have long been more advisable than hard drinks and beer if one is trying to lose weight. The combination of a moderate weekly alcohol intake and exercise proved beneficial not only in reducing weight and the risks of heart disease, but also most other medical deaths. While exercise or moderate drinking could also reduce the risks on their own significantly, the effect in combination was generally seen as being more positive. However, for many of the subjects who took part in the study, it was found that neither moderate exercise alone, nor moderate drinking alone, could reverse the long-term consequences of inactivity and a lack of drinking. Or, in some cases, excessive drinking. The reduction of risks due to ailments not related to the heart was present, but was small in comparison to the larger reduction for heart-related fatalities. Harvey Ong is a part-time writer and part-time creative, with experience in writing a wide range of public interest topics, including history, medicine, literature, and military strategy. In his spare time, he moderates an Internet forum, writes romance and horror fiction, plays collectible card games, and collects source books for various tabletop role-playing games This article is a property of Drugstoretm - Online Drugstore Pharmacy | |
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