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[Science Summary]

When people become legal to consume alcohol, they usually enjoy drinking for a period of time after that. However, people in the middle stages of their lifespan love drinking more. People that are in their midlife stages who consume a lot of alcohol on a daily basis or have had problems with drinking, it doubles their chance of memory loss and can cause dementia later in the future. "What we did here is investigate the relatively unknown association between having a drinking problem at any point in life and experiencing problems with memory later in life" (Dr. Lang, University of Exeter). This is an issue that needs to be addressed and consumers of alcohol should take note of. "When we talk about drinking too much, the media often focuses on young people ending up in A&E after a night out. However, there's also a hidden cost of alcohol abuse given the mounting evidence that alcohol abuse can also impact on cognition later in life. This small study shows that people who admitted to alcohol abuse at some point in their lives were twice as likely to have severe memory problems, and as the research relied on self-reporting that number may be even higher" (University of Exeter). I personally think that anyone should be able to consume as much alcohol as they want, but be smart and think about the problems they might have in the future.

References: University of Exeter. "Problem drinking in midlife doubles chance of memory problems in later life." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 29 July 2014. .

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