Incredible findings from an Australian study of 25,000 participants determined that people who drank the equivalent of two pints of beer a day were a third less likely to develop dementia than abstainers. The Daily Express reported that a marked reduction was also observed in participants who drank the most amount of beer, but experts in the study warned against excessive alcohol consumption.
Dementia is a destructive set of symptoms associated with brain decline. And the new study, published in the journal Addiction, has arrived at a surprising conclusion: drinking beer may help.
Researchers at the University of New South Wales obtained data on the alcohol drinking habits and dementia rates of 24,478 over-60s. The cohort was divided into non-drinkers, occasional drinkers (1.3g of ethanol per day), light to moderate drinkers (1.3g to 25g per day), moderate to heavy drinkers (25g to 45g per day) and heavy drinkers (more than 45g per day).
