Just a drink? Moderate drinking can also inevitably damage the brain.

Original title: Just a drink? Moderate drinking also inevitably damages the brain
and excessive drinking can cause brain damage is almost well known. However, British scientists have found that even moderate drinking inevitably damages the brain.
Researchers at Oxford University and University College London analysed data from 550 men and women over a 30-year period and found that men and women who drank 14 to 21 units a week for decades were two to three times more likely to have their brains shrink. The sea mass is responsible for the storage conversion and orientation of long-term memory in the brain. A unit of alcohol is defined as containing 8 grams of pure alcohol, equivalent to the amount of alcohol contained in a large glass of red wine or 568 ml of 5 degree beer.
, moderate drinkers also performed worse through the years on specific vocabulary tests, but other language functions did not appear to be affected.
researchers said their findings "support UK drinking guidance but call into question the limitations of US guidance". The UK government last year tightened its guidelines on national drinking, recommending that adult men and women drink up to 14 units a week, up from 24 a week in the US. 5 drinking units.
researchers acknowledge that the survey sample data are limited and fail to reveal a causal relationship between alcohol consumption and brain damage. The study was published in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal. (Yuan Yuan)