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19.05.2021 / 12:13
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Drinking small amounts of booze 'bad for your brain' and wine has 'no health benefits'
alcohol damages your brain, a new study has claimed.Even the occasional tipple negatively impacts parts of our grey matter, while "moderate" consumption affects nearly all of it.The study, which is yet to be peer-reviewed, examined how boozing affected more than 25,000 people in the UK.It found that consuming any amount of alcohol reduced the size of the brain, while drinking more caused greater damage.Researchers analysed data from 25,378 participants such as age, sex, education, self-reported alcohol consumption, brain size and health from MRI scans, information about hospital and outpatient visits, and memory tests.They discovered that heavy drinkers could see the brain shrink by as much as 0.8% - more than any other risk factor that can