Healthy drinking
The Science of Healthy Drinking by Gene Ford carefully analyzes the medical research evidence about the effects of drinking on human health and disease. Some of the books findings are listed here alphabetically. The numbers in parentheses refer to chapters in Healthy Drinking. Acute Hospitalization (19) Acute hospitalization refers to unscheduled visits to hospitals or emergency rooms. Research has discovered that moderate alcohol consumption dramatically lowers the risk of acute hospitalization. Moderate drinkers have dramatically fewer acute hospital visits than abstainers or abusers Some studies find that moderate drinkers have half the hospitalizations of abstainers and Moderate drinking is associated with substantially lower hospitalization costs to society Aging and Alzheimer's Disease (10) Some research suggests that light drinking may may delay dementia, loss of cognition and Alzheimer's Disease. Medical research indicates that light or moderate drinkingProtects against cerebral lesions, may delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease for as long as three years, is associated with slightly better cognitive (thinking) skills and is associated with an 80% decrease in frequency of dementia.