Everyday Health Dilemmas Solved By Sally Wadyka
Eat pizza or Chinese? Sleep in or exercise? Find out which is the better choice.
Order Dessert or a Second Glass of Wine?
Better choice: dessert
Sweet tooths, rejoice! While no one is suggesting that it's healthy to eat a rich dessert, the research is pretty clear: Women
should have no more than one drink a day.
"There's some evidence that moderate alcohol intake lowers the risk of heart disease, but one a day is considered the limit
for women," says JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. (Some experts say that
having two a couple of days a week is OK.)
There are other problems with alcohol, even in moderation. "Alcohol consumption is associated with an increased risk of breast
cancer," says Heather Spencer Feigelson, Ph.D., a senior epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society, in Atlanta. "And while
the risk of breast cancer from one glass of alcohol is small, I'd choose dessert over a second cocktail."
But… Since being overweight also raises the risk of breast cancer, as well as of diabetes and heart disease, go easy on the dessert.
Sorbet or even a fruit tart is a better choice than, say, cheesecake.
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