Summer is traditionally the time for barbecues and long aperitifs.

For the youngest, it is strongly advised to limit their alcohol consumption.

Because a recent study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation indicates that "young people under 40 put their health at risk when they consume more than two teaspoons of wine and two and a half teaspoons of beer a day”, reports an article from

Fortune

relayed by

Courrier International

.

Benefits for the over 40s?

It would therefore be better to abstain below the age of 40.

On the other hand, people in their forties and older could benefit from alcohol consumption, measured of course.

Thus, according to researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle, people aged 40 and over, "without a medical history, could derive some benefits from a limited consumption of alcohol - a small glass of red wine a day -, in particular by reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke and diabetes”, it is specified in

The Guardian

.

“Alcohol is very harmful to the human body”

Conclusions that can be compared with another study published in PLOS Medicine in which the weekly consumption of more than three pints of beer or three-quarters of a bottle of wine becomes problematic for health.

This would lead to an increase in iron levels in the brain, which "has been linked to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases".

Interviewed by the British daily, Dr. Richard Piper, head of Alcohol Change UK, an organization whose goal is to reduce the damage caused by alcohol, has a clear opinion.

“The hundreds of studies published over the past twenty years clearly show that alcohol is very harmful to the human body.

We did not know this before, and many of us continue to drink as if this knowledge revolution had not taken place”.

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