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People Who Drink Alcohol Every Day Are Less Likely to Get Dementia

An intriguing 30-year-long study of heavy alcohol drinkers found that heavy drinkers are more likely to live to the age of 85 without being stricken with dementia, The Independent reports. But, before you decide this is a bottoms-up license to imbibe into oblivion, note that the study defined “heavy” as those who drank UP TO three drinks a day — beyond that you could actually trigger dementia, researchers cautioned. Interestingly, this study of both men and women showed that...