[lbo-talk] Drinking causes brain shrinkage over long term

[Chris Doss]

At the risk of sounding like an apologist for Hitchens, isn't 1% a bit trivial? And what part(s) of the brain?

Christopher E. Doss
Moscow, Russian Federation

--- On Wed, 10/15/08, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Among those who drank the most, more than 14 drinks a week,
> the brain was one per cent smaller on average, compared with
> abstainers, the researchers found, after correcting for head
> size, age, sex, education, height, body mass index and
> stroke risk.
>