Reader, if you, like me, have harnessed your fate to a boozeless January – at least until finally Burns Evening – and have stayed on the wagon therefore far, then congratulations. You’ve made it half way, more or significantly less. Celebrate with a ginger beer. Or a ginless tonic water. Or yet another Virgin Mary.
Let’s face it, the midway point is constantly the hardest. So here’s a bit of encouragement. Thanks to new research carried out by Professor Rajiv Jalan at the Institute for Liver and Digestive Well being at University College London (UCL), in conjunction with the New Scientist magazine, we now know far a lot more about the wellness benefits of a dry month. And they are remarkable.
“I was really amazed that even in individuals drinking within safe limits, significant enhancements had been attainable inside of a one particular-month abstention,” says Prof Jalan. “The observed effects on excess weight, cholesterol and glucose have been staggering.”
He studied 14 “healthy and normal” journalists (quit sniggering at the back) who have been functioning complete time and consuming alcohol socially. Ten of them gave up consuming and four continued to drink.
The dry cohort showed “a statistically and clinically important improvement” in terms of their ranges of liver fat (which decreased by a staggering 15-20 per cent), blood glucose, and cholesterol. On average, they also misplaced a kilogram of fat.
Other rewards included much better sleep at night, improved wakefulness and concentration during the day, and much better perform performance.
So, my brothers and sisters in teetotalism, do not fail do not falter. And if you are ferocious in battle, don’t forget to be magnanimous in victory.
Not that going dry is difficult, of course.
Dry January? I"m totally on best of this teetotalism
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