{"id":2239,"date":"2009-07-13T10:18:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T14:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2009-07-13T14:15:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T18:15:14","slug":"for-seniors-a-few-drinks-cuts-dimentia-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/07\/13\/for-seniors-a-few-drinks-cuts-dimentia-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"For seniors, a few drinks cuts dementia risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alcohol consumption &#8212; one to two drinks a day &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20670001&amp;sid=aGQuJVqQrMzc\" target=\"_self\">lowers the risk of dementia, based on a six-year<\/a> study of people aged 75 years or older.\u00a0 Although there is no explanation why a moderate amount of alcohol is good for the brain, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alzresearch\/team\/faculty\/stern.html\">Robert Stern<\/a>,\u00a0Co-Director of the Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Clinical &amp; Research\u00a0Programs,\u00a0cited studies where the reverse &#8212; abstinence &#8212; lowers the risk of liver disease, breast cancer, colorectal disease, and diabetes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcohol consumption &#8212; one to two drinks a day &#8212; lowers the risk of dementia, based on a six-year study of people aged 75 years or older.\u00a0 Although there is no explanation why a moderate amount of alcohol is good for the brain, Robert Stern,\u00a0Co-Director of the Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Clinical &amp; Research\u00a0Programs,\u00a0cited studies where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1049,1239],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}