DRINKING in moderation really is good for you. But just how good depends on
your genetic make-up, say researchers in Boston.
Lisa Hines of the Harvard School of Public ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ and her colleagues have
found that people with gene variants that make them metabolise ethanol slowly
benefit most. Moderate alcohol consumption greatly reduces these people’s risk
of having a heart attack.
Many epidemiological studies have shown that a few drinks a day cut the risk
of a heart attack, but there has always been the niggling doubt that lifestyle
factors linked to moderate alcohol intake were at work. Now Hines’s…
