{"id":406311,"date":"2017-07-28T11:40:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T11:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/28\/drinking-a-few-times-a-week-reduces-diabetes-risk-myjoyonline-com\/"},"modified":"2017-07-28T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T11:40:16","slug":"drinking-a-few-times-a-week-reduces-diabetes-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/28\/drinking-a-few-times-a-week-reduces-diabetes-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking a few times a week ‘reduces diabetes risk’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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People who drink three to four times a week are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those who never drink, Danish researchers suggest.<\/p>\n

Wine appears to be particularly beneficial, probably as it plays a role in helping to manage blood sugar, the study, published in\u00a0Diabetologia,\u00a0says.<\/p>\n

They surveyed more than 70,000 people on their alcohol intake – how much and how often they drank.<\/p>\n

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But experts said this wasn’t a “green light” to drink more than recommended.<\/p>\n

Prof Janne Tolstrup, from the National Institute of Public Health of the University of Southern Denmark, who led the research, said: “We found that drinking frequency has an independent effect from the amount of alcohol taken.<\/p>\n

“We can see it’s a better effect to drink the alcohol in four portions rather than all at once.”<\/p>\n

After around five years, study participants were followed up and a total of 859 men and 887 women group had developed diabetes – either type 1 or the more common type 2.<\/p>\n

The researchers concluded that drinking moderately three to four times a week reduced a woman’s risk of diabetes by 32% while it lowered a man’s by 27%, compared with people drinking on less than one day a week<\/p>\n

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Findings also suggest that not all types of alcohol had the same effect.<\/p>\n

Wine appeared to be particularly beneficial because polyphenols, particularly in red wine, play a role in helping to manage blood sugar.<\/p>\n

When it came to drinking beer, men having one to six beers a week lowered their risk of diabetes by 21%, compared to men who drank less than one beer a week – but there was no impact on women’s risk.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a high intake of spirits among women seemed to significantly increase their risk of diabetes – but there was no effect in men.<\/p>\n

Unlike other studies, this research did not find a link between binge drinking and diabetes.<\/p>\n

Prof Tolstrup said this could be down to the small number of participants that reported binge drinking, which was defined as drinking five drinks or more on one occasion.<\/p>\n

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Dr Emily Burns, head of research communications at Diabetes UK, said people needed to be wary as “the impact of regular alcohol consumption on the risk of type 2 will be different from one person to the next”.<\/p>\n

While the findings were interesting she said they “wouldn’t recommend people see them as a green light to drink in excess of the existing NHS guidelines”.<\/p>\n

That advice suggests that men and women should drink no more than 14 units of alcohol a week – equivalent to six pints of average strength beer or 10 small glasses of low strength wine – over the course of three days or more, with some days being alcohol-free.<\/p>\n

Prof Tolstrup and her team have used the same survey to research the effect of alcohol on other conditions.<\/p>\n

They found that drinking moderately a few times a week was linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular disorders, such as heart attack and stroke.<\/p>\n

But consuming any amount of alcohol increased the risk of developing gastrointestinal diseases, such as alcohol liver disease and pancreatitis.<\/p>\n

Prof Tolstrup added: “Alcohol is associated with 50 different conditions, so we’re not saying ‘go ahead and drink alcohol’.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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