{"id":7026,"date":"2017-06-07T11:32:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T15:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7026"},"modified":"2017-06-07T11:32:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T15:32:21","slug":"even-moderate-drinking-may-speed-brain-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7026","title":{"rendered":"Even moderate drinking may speed brain decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ike Swetlitz for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">I<\/span>mbibing just a handful of beers a week is associated with long-term changes to a person\u2019s brain, a new study finds \u2014\u00a0although the functional meaning of these changes is unclear. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/06\/06\/moderate-drinking-brain-decline\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8uLORcb-LgFGUt--ch9NPBWOeMUJ9oxvNay3h3tn5DQeoX203rr80Zi0YhMODkC9ikaFKEWONzIEeudpH7VHL6itxoNQ&amp;_hsmi=52828479\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ike Swetlitz for STAT) Imbibing just a handful of beers a week is associated with long-term changes to a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7027,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026\/revisions\/7027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}