Guest post: by Pamelia Brown. A research study released March 8 indicates that middle aged women who drink moderately, even as often as every day, gain less weight long-term than do women who don’t drink at all. The study was conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, in which almost 20,000 women were surveyed about their weight and their drinking habits. The women were tracked for a period of thirteen years.

What head researcher Dr. Lu Wang and her associates discovered is that women under 50 who drink lightly or moderately have little more than half the risk chance of obesity than do their non-drinking counterparts. Even though alcohol has been associated with weight gain for a long time, Wang speculates that there may be other factors involved in this surprising new finding. [read more ->]

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