Captain Ahab’s BodyBlog

 What I had believed to be true and had been advocating for a number of years has been verified in a report released recently.
Out of London England comes the publication of a Danish study showing that drinking in moderation is healthy and exercise is healthy and combining them is even healthier.
People who neither drink nor exercise have a 30-to-49 percent higher risk of heart disease than people who do one or both of the activities, reported the researchers in the European Heart Journal.
The main finding is “there seems to be an additional beneficial effect of drinking one or two drinks a day and doing at least moderate physical activity,” said Morten Gronbaek of the University Of Southern Denmark who led the study. The study indicated that a glass or two of wine or your favorite alcohol straight or over rocks rather than mixed with sodas is the preferred way to go and does not put you in danger of ingesting a lot of sugar and spoiling your fitness routine.
After watching my wife go through and continually put up with the pain from Lupus and Fibromyalgia and seeing her ingest the prescribed medication, which seemed to have little if any effect I asked “why don’t you have a drink,” meaning a glass of wine or port which she enjoys and after convincing her that it would not be detrimental to her quest for fitness she consented. Low and behold if she didn’t start seeing a bit of relief from her headaches and her joint aches. I have believed and personally known for some time now that a glass or two of my favorite liquor does nothing untoward regarding maintaining good physical condition and in fact seems to take some of the stresses away after a hard workout and ease some of my physical pain.
I am not advocating downing a gallon or so of Thunderbird wine or a quart of Vodka but rather a drink or two over the course of the evening, which is something I have long believed can have very beneficial results.

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