{"id":512,"date":"2010-03-12T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T10:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2010\/03\/can-drinking-help-women-lose-w.html"},"modified":"2010-03-12T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T10:24:23","slug":"can-drinking-help-women-lose-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2010\/03\/can-drinking-help-women-lose-w.html","title":{"rendered":"Can Drinking Help Women Lose Weight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting study out recently that suggests women may be able to gain less or maintain their weight if they drink, compared to those who don&#8217;t.&nbsp; The study looked at 19, 220 women over 39 years old, over 13 years.&nbsp; 60 percent of those women drank &#8220;lightly,&#8221; or &#8220;moderately,&#8221; while 40 percent said they did not drink.&nbsp; All were &#8220;normal&#8221; weight, according to their BMI, at the start of the study.<\/p>\n<p>The conclusion, as <a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/short\/170\/5\/453?home\" target=\"_blank&quot;\">reported in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine<\/a>: &#8220;Compared with nondrinkers, initially normal-weight women who consumed a light to moderate amount of alcohol gained less weight and had a lower risk of becoming overweight and\/or obese during 12.9 years of follow-up.&#8221;&nbsp; Non-drinking women in the study gained more weight over the course of the study.&nbsp; It was conducted by researchers at Boston&#8217;s Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital, and at Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>Now don&#8217;t rush to the liquor store and pick up the latest weight loss magic liquid!&nbsp; You need to remember that the women in the study were &#8220;normal weight&#8221; at the beginning of the study.&nbsp; Also, the study didn&#8217;t say they lost weight, only maintained it and this report is only women; men don&#8217;t seem to have the same metabolic affect with alcohol. <\/p>\n<p>We already know that red wine consumption in moderate amounts can help with heart and vascular disease.&nbsp; The ingredient in red wine and in grapes &#8211; resveratrol &#8212;&nbsp; is to thank.&nbsp;&nbsp; That&#8217;s what the study attributes the results to.<\/p>\n<p>Still, wine and alcohol have lots and lots of calories.&nbsp; Drinking in excess can certainly cause one to gain weight.&nbsp; So be careful!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/08\/women-drinkers-gain-less-weight\/?src=me&amp;ref=health\" target=\"_blank&quot;\">article in the New York Times<\/a> by Tara Parker-Pope about it that may also be of interest to you.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested in you:&nbsp; do you drink?&nbsp; Have you found that drinking maintains your weight, or causes you to gain?&nbsp; Please tell us in a comment post.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/search.blog.beliefnet.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?search=Give-Back+Diet&amp;IncludeBlogs=129&amp;Go.x=20&amp;Go.y=7\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GBD-button.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/79\/import\/GBD-button.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px;float: right\" height=\"125\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting study out recently that suggests women may be able to gain less or maintain their weight if they drink, compared to those who don&#8217;t.&nbsp; The study looked at 19, 220 women over 39 years old, over 13 years.&nbsp; 60 percent of those women drank &#8220;lightly,&#8221; or &#8220;moderately,&#8221; while 40 percent said they&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18,3,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet","category-food","category-health","category-lifestyles","category-weight-loss"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Can Drinking Help Women Lose Weight? - Dr. Norris J. 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