Cheers for beer

DAYS after dire warnings from the US regarding the dangers of alcohol, the University of Murcia put in a good word for beer.

Beer drinkers appear to have better mental and physical health than teetotallers and ex ‐drinkers, a research team announced.

Analysing data from 33,185 participants in Spain’s National Health surveys between 2012 and 2017, they found that 80 per cent of mod ‐erate drinkers rated their physical health as ‘good’ compared to 50 per cent of non‐drinkers.

ICE CREAM: Benefits outweighed by sugar and calorie content.

Ninety per cent of beer ‐ drinkers regarded their mental health as ‘good’ compared to 80 per cent of non‐drinkers.

The heavier their in ‐take, the better beer ‐drinkers rated their health although the ex ‐perts warned that they were more likely to eat fast food and smoke.

Food for thought

DOCTORS believe that the food a woman eats can in‐fluence the onset on the menopause.

A 2018 Leeds University study found that women who ate a daily 90 grammes of oily fish like mackerel or trout experienced the menopause nearly three and a half years later than the UK’s average age of 51.

In contrast, those with a diet of refined foods, in‐cluding pasta and rice, went through the menopause around one and a half years earlier, the investigators said.

APPROXIMATELY 10 million people suffer from mi ‐graine in the UK and more than five million in Spain. A face mask that delivers blasts of oxygen could soon help to alleviate their agonising headaches that are often accompanied by nausea, disturbed vision and sensitivity to light, sound and smells.

It is hoped that the de ‐vice, which is currently be‐ing trialled by 160 patients,

Vaping alert

VAPING does not help young smokers break the habit, a survey of UK 1,000 teenagers revealed.

US researchers analysing the data discovered that frequent smoking ‐ more than six cigarettes a week ‐was higher in those who began vaping before they were 15.

Youngsters who smoked and vaped were twice as likely to smoke heavily by the time they left school than their peers who used tobacco, the investigators found.