Just one pint of beer or average glass of wine a day may begin to shrink the overall volume of the brain, a new study has found, and the damage worsens as the number of daily drinks rises
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The pandemic may have created a nation of problem drinkers -- and many are womenOn average, people at age 50 who drank a pint of beer or 6-ounce glass of wine a day in the last month had brains that appeared two years older than those who only drank a half of a beer , according to the study, which published Friday in the journal Nature.The brains of people that age who said they drank three alcohol units a day had reductions in both white and gray matter that looked as if they had added 3.
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