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Thursday, January 16, 2014, 20:22

The men who drink regularly and heavily in middle age ‘lose their memory more’ faster than others, on average, six years earlier than the people who drink less or not at all. And ‘This is the result of a study conducted for over 25 years on a large group of more than 7,500 Britons, whose physical and mental health’ was analyzed at intervals of four years. Published in the U.S. journal ‘neurology’, research has observed a decline in memory in particular among men who drank an average of two and a half glasses of alcohol per day in the years of middle-aged ‘. By analyzing the results of the cognitive tests associated with alcohol consumption, the researchers also observed among drinkers of 36 grams of alcohol daily – ie two and a half glasses – “a decline in the ability ‘cognitive in all areas more’ fast.”