Quite a few newspapers reported that German researchers compared brain scans of alcoholics and healthy adults and found that the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for memory, was 10% smaller in wine drinkers. A shrink hippocampus can affect the brain' spatial awareness as well as memory.
The researchers also found that beer drinkers had the lowest level of homocysteine, a compound that has been linked to heart disease and strokes. The study was published in the journal "Alcohol and Alcoholism".
This finding contradicts previous studies that linked moderate wine drinking to health bebefits including reducing high blood pressure and heart attack.
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