The risk is estimated at 9 percent for every ten grams of alcohol, or roughly the amount of alcohol in a four-ounce glass of wine. One shot of hard liquor contains 15 grams of alcohol. Dr. Stephanie Smith Warner, a research fellow in nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, was lead author of the new study. She said there are a number of other ways to protect the heart besides drinking. They include watching blood pressure and cholesterol levels, keeping a normal body weight, avoiding cigarettes, and taking aspirin.
Regular exercise is a key preventive measure.
That word from PATH Foundation, a non-profit scientific group in Princeton, New Jersey. Their study, published in a journal called Clinical Electroencephalography, indicates that the greater the drug abuse, the greater the measurable brain disturbances. Children living in homes with two or more cigarette smokers had an 85 percent higher than normal history of persistent or recurrent middle ear infections. Pollution also contributes to increased ear infections, experts said. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that use of cocaine constricts blood vessels in the brain.