New findings reveal that regular exercise could help prevent the damage caused by alcohol.
Alcohol can be as bad for the brain matter as it is for the liver, but although attempts have been made to educate drinkers about safe levels of alcohol consumption 'binge-drinking' is on the rise. But a new study, conducted on sixty people with similar brain and clinical data, could offer hope to those who are as fanatical about keeping fit as they are about drinking.
Researchers at the University of California quizzed the participants about how much alcohol they consumed, their loss of control over drinking, and how much exercise they do. They then calculated the results to examine the relationship between exercise and drinking-related neurological damage.
The report, due to be published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, concludes that the extent of brain damage caused by heavy drinking is dependent on the amount of exercise the drinker gets; so it would seem that lacing up the pumps, pumping the arms, and pounding the pavement is, can be as good for the mind as it is for the body.
