As the gender gap in drinking narrows, alcohol-related complications in women are rising. From immune system disorders to breast cancer, Meryl Davids Landau shares how alcohol harms the female body.
Federal guidelines recommend that women who want to drink consume no more than one serving a day. But from a health perspective, less—or none—is a better target.”
Source: National Geographic, August 22, 2023. Link. Women who drink develop a greater number of medical problems, and at much lower alcohol levels, than men. While more men die from alcohol use than women, the recent study published in JAMA Network Open found the gap is shrinking.