Alcohol may improve female bone structure

[hightime]

LONDON, June 30 (UPI) -- U.K. researchers have found moderate alcohol consumption may help build stronger bones in women by improving their micro-architecture.

The study, which was released Wednesday, was conducted at St. Thomas Hospital. Researchers examined 46 pairs of identical female twins and found the twin who drank a moderate amount of alcohol had significantly denser bones at the spine and hip vs. the other twin who drank very little.

The researchers chose twins as subjects of the study to eliminate any possible genetic and environmental influences on the effects of alcohol on the bones.

The results do not show a link between alcohol consumption and bone formation or resorption, the researchers said. Instead, they suggest alcohol improves the micro-architecture of the bone.

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[maxsolomon]

1. insert obvious joke regarding beer goggles.

my companion just got more justification for her daily tippling.

[Emboldened Chimp]

2. Drink up, ladies!

:toast: :beer: :party:

[alittlelark]

3. WOW!!!!

I guess I'll have great bones in my elder years!
:toast: :beer: :hangover: :puke:

yup

[icymist]

4. Yea! Another study saying that drinking is good for you!

Or, at least, good for identical female twins! Since I'm allowed up to eight drinks per week in this study...I was wondering....could I have them all at once, say at the party on Saturday night? Nah, just kidding.

[Jack_DeLeon]

5. I will have to conduct my own experients with female volunteers.

:P

[Wilber_Stool]

6. My, you have lovley bones.

`Can I buy you a drink?

[KalicoKitty]

7. That may be very true!

I have a 90 year-old aunt who loves her whiskey. She has never had a fracture, and falls down sometimes. She still smokes a pack a day! Her sister, died at the age of 60 and never drank, nor smoked.

[KalicoKitty]

8. That may be very true!

I have a 90 year-old aunt who loves her whiskey. She has never had a fracture, and falls down sometimes. She still smokes a pack a day! Her sister, died at the age of 60 and never drank, nor smoked.

[MercutioATC]

9. No, honey. I'm not trying to get you drunk, I just want you to be healthy.

:evilgrin:

[aquanut]

10. From 2001

http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh25-4/276-281.pdf

[TankLV]

11. Hey it sure works for some of them when I do the drinking!

Alcohol.

The ugly person's aphrodisiac.

[mike1963]

12. "Have some Madeira, m' dear?"

:D

[hightime]

13. Have some madeira, m'dear, it's really an excellent year

Now if it were gin, you'd be wrong to say yes
The evil gin does would be hard to assess
Besides it's inclined to affect me prowess
Have some madeira, m'dear

[PaDUer]

14. The hell with the Fosamax!!

Drink up, and one for the road!

[Thor_MN]

15. OK, people in orbit (Low gravity) lose bone density due to lack exercise

Have they controlled this study for the er.. "exercise" that alcohol can promote? Besides the, um, obvious, alcohol often is implicated with dancing which would promote dense bones.

The Fundies that frown on Alcohol and dance might just have those beliefs because they like their women pliant...

[DivinBreuvage]

16. Best news I've heard all year

I'm a lavishly voluptuous gal and need strong bones. And here it turns out I've been fortifying them all night!