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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Saturday, July 29, 2017
Drinking a few times a week 'reduces diabetes risk'
28 July 2017
People who drink three to four times a week are less likely to develop
type 2 diabetes than those who never drink, Danish researchers suggest.
Wine appears to be particularly beneficial, probably as it plays a role
in helping to manage blood sugar, the study, published in Diabetologia, says.
They surveyed more than 70,000 people on their alcohol intake - how much and how often they drank.
But experts said this wasn't a "green light" to drink more than recommended.
And Public Health England warned that consuming alcohol contributed to a
vast number of other serious diseases, including some cancers, heart
and liver disease.
"People should keep this in mind when thinking about how much they drink," a spokeswoman said.
'Better effect'
Prof Janne Tolstrup, from the National Institute of Public Health of the
University of Southern Denmark, who led the research, said: "We found
that drinking frequency has an independent effect from the amount of
alcohol taken.
"We can see it's a better effect to drink the alcohol in four portions rather than all at once."
After around five years, study participants were followed up and a total
of 859 men and 887 women group had developed diabetes - either type 1
or the more common type 2.
The researchers concluded that drinking moderately three to four times a
week reduced a woman's risk of diabetes by 32% while it lowered a man's
by 27%, compared with people drinking on less than one day a week.
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Findings also suggest that not all types of alcohol had the same effect.
Wine appeared to be particularly beneficial because polyphenols,
particularly in red wine, play a role in helping to manage blood sugar.
When it came to drinking beer, men having one to six beers a week
lowered their risk of diabetes by 21%, compared to men who drank less
than one beer a week - but there was no impact on women's risk.
Meanwhile, a high intake of spirits among women seemed to significantly
increase their risk of diabetes - but there was no effect in men.
Unlike other studies, this research did not find a link between binge drinking and diabetes.
Prof Tolstrup said this could be down to the small number of
participants that reported binge drinking, which was defined as drinking
five drinks or more on one occasion.
Dr Emily Burns, head of research communications at Diabetes UK, said
people needed to be wary as "the impact of regular alcohol consumption
on the risk of type 2 will be different from one person to the next".
While the findings were interesting she said they "wouldn't recommend
people see them as a green light to drink in excess of the existing NHS
guidelines".
That advice suggests that men and women should drink no more than 14
units of alcohol a week - equivalent to six pints of average strength
beer or 10 small glasses of low strength wine - over the course of three
days or more, with some days being alcohol-free.
'Not helpful'
Rosanna O'Connor, director of drugs, alcohol and tobacco at Public
Health England, said: "It is not helpful to talk about the effect of
alcohol consumption on diabetes alone.
"Consuming alcohol contributes to a vast number of other serious
diseases, including some cancers, heart disease and liver disease, so
people should keep this in mind when thinking about how much they
drink."
Prof Tolstrup and her team have used the same survey to research the effect of alcohol on other conditions.
They found that drinking moderately a few times a week was linked to a
lower risk of cardiovascular disorders, such as heart attack and stroke.
But consuming any amount of alcohol increased the risk of developing
gastrointestinal diseases, such as alcohol liver disease and
pancreatitis.
Prof Tolstrup added: "Alcohol is associated with 50 different conditions, so we're not saying 'go ahead and drink alcohol'."