2134...Alcohol: Bad For You?

Whodda thunk it.

Flipping through The Daily Orange, Syracuse University's daily paper, I came across a story that claims that alcohol use is bad for you.

I know, hard to believe.

It is especially bad for you if you are a young woman who has plans to get older.

Claire McFarland writes that "Regularly consuming alcohol may put teenage girls at a higher risk for developing benign breast disease in their 20s, according to a recent study conducted by Harvard researchers."

Quoting from Harvard's Growing Up Today study: " 'Our main finding was that adolescent girls in high school and college who typically had seven drinks total each week were 50 percent more likely to develop benign breast disease in their late 20s. Also, drinking three or more days per week greatly increased their risk,' said Catherine Berkey, lead researcher and biostatistician at Harvard Medical School."

Miss McFarland continues with these sobering words: "The Harvard University School of Public Health defines binge drinking as five drinks in one sitting for men and four drinks in one sitting for women. Recent data have also shown an increase in the number of young female binge drinkers in the United States. Girls today are four times more likely than their mothers were to begin drinking by age 16, Time magazine reported in its April 1 issue."

WFDS