When toasting the 38th birthday of The Neighbours trollop don't worry about killing da brain cells.
Jean Carper in England's Daily Mail writes that booze may not bite a chunk off yer brain.
"A daily cocktail or glass of wine may help delay dementia. Research has found that alcohol is an anti-inflammatory (inflammation promotes Alzheimer's) and raises good HDL cholesterol, which helps ward off dementia. Recent work at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Centre in North Carolina found that older people who had eight to 14 alcoholic drinks a week had a 37 per cent lower risk of dementia than non-drinkers."
Is it just me or do we both find it unusual that a Baptist centre of learning is studying booze?
The problem for many of us is the fact that the booze blade cuts another way "... adults who go on occasional binges face a higher risk. A Finnish study showed that adults who binged in midlife at least once a month - drinking, for example, more than five bottles of beer or a bottle of wine at one sitting - were three times more likely to develop dementia, including Alzheimer's, 25 years later."
I'm still going to toast Kimberley Davies.
WFDS
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