Alcohol is always a questionable beverage for diabetics because it causes a spike in blood sugar. Within just a couple drinks, your body is overloaded with the task of converting glucose into energy.
At least that’s what everyone thought.
According to a recent Danish study, drinking moderately (3 to 4 days each week) is associated with a reduced risk of developing diabetes.
Alcohol Several Days a Week May Lower Diabetes Risk
Though alcohol is usually a concern when it comes to blood glucose, research has supported the link between alcohol consumption and lowered diabetes risk. 
But one Danish team of researchers wanted to know more about that.
So instead of focusing on the frequency of drinking like the previous studies, they gather data on patterns of drinking. They looked into which drinks the participants chose and how many drinks they gulped per day.
The team analyzed data from over 70,000 participants who did not have diabetes at the beginning of the study. The participants answered questions regarding lifestyle, health, and drinking habits
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After following the participants for 5 years, they found that almost 2,000 participants developed diabetes.
The findings were pretty shocking, too. The researchers took such detailed information in their questionnaires that the results painted a very clear picture.
Lowest Diabetes Risk for Wine Drinkers
All of the data collected shed lights on the diabetes risk associated with wine, beer, and spirits. Of the three, wine drinkers had the lowest risk of developing diabetes.
Quite a bit of it, in fact. Those who consumed seven drinks of wine or more each week had a 30 percent lower risk of developing diabetes than those who drank fewer drinks.
Luckily, beer and spirits drinkers weren’t left out of these benefits. Though their risk wasn’t reduced quite so much, its was still significantly reduced with 3 to 4 days of drinking per week.
So go ahead and order that glass of wine with dinner.
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Medical News Today. URL Link. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
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