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Alcohol Drinkers Consume More Calories And Cholesterol Than Nondrinkers.(Brief Article)
2001 SEP 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Study findings suggest diets of those imbibing alcohol are less healthy than those of teetotalers.
Different levels of alcohol consumption may alter dietary habits, which may confound the health-related effects of alcohol. In an article in the August 2001 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Emmanuelle Kesse and colleagues examined whether eating habits in a large cohort of French women varied according to alcohol consumption.
Those who drank more ate more calories, with a greater percentage of calories coming from protein and fats, including cholesterol and all forms of fatty acids, the researchers found. The women also consumed more vitamin A, E, and iron, but less beta carotene, with a reduced percentage of calories from carbohydrates ("Do eating habits differ according to alcohol consumption? Results of a study of the French cohort of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (E3N-EPIC)," Am J Clin Nutr, 2001;74:322-7).
Self-administered questionnaires were collected from 72,904 French women ages 40-65 years in 1990. The women were divided into seven categories based on their alcohol consumption, which ranged from nondrinkers (13% of subjects) to heavy drinkers who consumed more than 2-1/2 drinks of alcohol daily (7%), while 35% consumed up to 2-1/2 drinks daily. The questionnaire included portion size and frequency data for 238 food items, which were then correlated with ...
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