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A BBC headline should make women that like to have a glass of wine in the evening very happy. The headline writer reveals a study claims: "Women who drink wine (are) less likely to gain weight." In this study, those who women that drank no alcohol gained the most weight while those that drank in moderation gained the least inches.

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The study used 19,200 American women aged 39 and up who were asked about their drinking habits and their weight gain and that was then recorded for the next 13 years, according to a report from the UK Daily Mail. Their work is in the Archives of Internal Medicine medical journal.


Skeptics were quick to warn would-be drinkers of the issues with using alcohol as some sort of a weight-loss plan. The BBC notes in a report that researchers in Britain were quick to caution that people should be wary of concluding they can shed pounds by drinking.

"It would be a mistake to think that drinking alcohol helps you lose weight," a dietitian told the news service.

The UK Daily Mail has more on the the research by U.S. experts at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. The review also suggested not all types of alcohol were equal, with spirits and beer less kind to the waistline than wine.