{"id":8242,"date":"2011-03-12T14:17:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T18:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8242"},"modified":"2011-03-12T14:17:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T18:17:54","slug":"drinking-is-good-for-you-but-we-dont-know-why-its-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/drinking-is-good-for-you-but-we-dont-know-why-its-good-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking is good for you, but we still don&#8217;t know <em>why<\/em> it&#8217;s good for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moderate drinking (defined as 2-3 drinks per day) is proven to be healthy for most people, but the jury is still out on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/03\/12\/studies-say-alcohol-is-good-for-you-but-why\/\" target=\"_blank\">why it&#8217;s good for you<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Scientists say that more research needs to be done to understand why alcohol may be beneficial in small doses. Most commonly, evidence shows that alcohol is associated with increased cardiovascular health. Researchers at the University of Calgary recently analyzed data on alcohol consumption and heart disease and determined that those who drink one to two glasses of alcohol per day are up to 25% less likely to develop heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>The team, lead by Dr. William Ghali, found that moderate drinking led to higher levels of \u201cgood\u201d cholesterol and a decrease of a chemical responsible for blood clotting. It doesn\u2019t matter if the booze is from Chateau Mouton-Rothschild or Labatt\u2019s; \u201cit does appear to be alcohol itself that is causing these favourable outcomes,\u201d Dr. Ghali, a professor of medicine at the university, said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moderate drinking (defined as 2-3 drinks per day) is proven to be healthy for most people, but the jury is still out on why it&#8217;s good for you: Scientists say that more research needs to be done to understand why alcohol may be beneficial in small doses. Most commonly, evidence shows that alcohol is associated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,16,131],"tags":[210,104,513],"class_list":["post-8242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-science","category-wine","tag-beer","tag-booze","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-28W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8244,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions\/8244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}