{"id":2367,"date":"2022-11-17T15:03:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T20:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-admin-panel.ladderlife.com\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2023-08-07T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:01:36","slug":"is-drinking-alcohol-good-or-bad-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ladderlife.com/blog\/is-drinking-alcohol-good-or-bad-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Is drinking alcohol good or bad for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There have been so many studies about alcohol over the years that have become commonplace in our collective mind: Drinking red wine could help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6804046\/\">reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog-admin-panel.ladderlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Untitled-design-41.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1296\" height=\"971\"><\/p>\n<p>But a new study in 2022 has come out with new data to support a more complicated picture of the risks of drinking alcohol. Here&#8217;s the newest info on drinking alcohol and how it affects your health.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2022\/03\/alcohol-may-not-benefit-the-heart-researchers-say\/\">A large study<\/a> done in 2022 by MIT and Harvard has newer, larger-scale evidence that drinking alcohol alone doesn&#8217;t lower your heart health. In the study, participants who drank lightly or moderately did have a lower risk of heart disease. But what the study also found is that people who completely abstained from drinking had a greater risk of heart disease than those light to moderate drinkers. (Those who drank heavily had the highest risk.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The study showed that <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2790520?resultClick=3\">light to moderate drinkers mostly have healthier habits overall<\/a>, including eating more vegetables, exercising, and smoking less. The study recommended that light to moderate alcohol not be &#8220;prescribed&#8221; to reduce cardiovascular risk, as there is much more at play in lifestyle than just alcohol consumption.<\/p>\n<p>This plays into the overall lifestyle trend of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/05\/business\/non-alcoholic-trend\/index.html\">alcohol playing less of a role in American social lives<\/a>. Younger consumers, in general, want to drink less but don&#8217;t want to stop drinking altogether. Non-alcoholic beverages, spirits, seltzers, and aperitifs have hit the market in full force to try and satisfy this growing demographic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>221108 &#8211; 2579698<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest research shows that alcohol consumption is bad for you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/ladderlife.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Untitled-design-41.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladderlife.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladderlife.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladderlife.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladderlife.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladderlife.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/ladderlife.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2587,"href":"http:\/\/ladderlife.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions\/2587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladderlife.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladderlife.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladderlife.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladderlife.com/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}