{"id":6851,"date":"2009-03-28T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=6851"},"modified":"2009-03-27T14:08:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T19:08:30","slug":"alcohol-consumption-may-strengthen-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/alcohol-consumption-may-strengthen-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol Consumption May Strengthen Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;ve always been told to bone-up on our calcium intake to strengthen our bones, there may be an unlikely helper &#8211; moderate alcohol drinking.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Red_Wine_Diet\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6963\" title=\"red-wine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/red-wine.gif\" alt=\"red wine\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition says that one or two drinks a day can improve your bone density. The study looked at the effect moderate drinking has on older men and women. It included 1,182 men, 1,289 post-menopausal women, and 248 pre-menopausal women, from as young as 29, to 86.<\/p>\n<p>The lead researcher, Dr. Katherine Tucker of Tufts University, says that it&#8217;s not the alcohol (of course), but the high silicone content and resveratrol in <a title=\"beer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/tag\/beer\/\" target=\"_self\">beer<\/a> and <a title=\"Mediterranean Diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Mediterranean-Diet\/\" target=\"_self\">wine<\/a> that benefit our bones. Liquor has less of a positive effect.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The key, as always, is moderation. There are things to watch for with alcohol intake. Like, if your face gets flush while drinking, it may mean&#8230; cancer? The response may signal a genetic susceptibility to esophageal cancer risk, U.S. and Japanese researchers said.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Via: <a title=\"Diet Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diet-blog.com\/archives\/2009\/03\/24\/moderate_drinking_may_improve_bone_density.php\" target=\"_blank\">Diet Blog<\/a> and <a title=\"Wellness.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wellness.com\/newsfeed.asp?id=20090324\/20090324Alcoholflushsignalscancerrisk.xml&amp;storyId=19743247\" target=\"_blank\">Wellness.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;ve always been told to bone-up on our calcium intake to strengthen our bones, there may be an unlikely helper &#8211; moderate alcohol drinking. A new study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition says that one or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/alcohol-consumption-may-strengthen-bones\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[136,272,1842,818,31,383,273,137],"class_list":["post-6851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-alcohol","tag-beer","tag-bone-health","tag-calcium","tag-health-news","tag-research-studies","tag-resveratrol","tag-wine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6851"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6962,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions\/6962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}