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You know, last month I read an article called Alcohol Abuse.

Women, do we need an intervention?

I read the article and I reread the article and I thought, you know, I think this would be great to share some of the key points with our Dishing Up Nutrition

listeners.

Nutritional weight and wellness is all about providing life-changing education, and this article

certainly had some concerning statistics.

So today on Dishing Up Nutrition, we are addressing the dangers of drinking.

More specifically, the dangers of drinking alcohol. So I want to share this alarming statistic

from 2001 to 2013. Now, during that 12-year time frame, there was a 58% increase in women's heavy drinking

and an 84% increase in alcohol use disorder.

Even more alarming, and because of the pandemic isolation and all those stressors, women's alcohol

usage continued to rise.

Women of all ages drank more.

So the question laid out in this article, do women need an intervention?

And I'd say, well, maybe we do.

With all the research data, we thought it would be

important for women to understand the health risks of drinking alcohol. The health risks are so

much more than just having a hangover the next day. So before we continue discussing these risks

of drinking alcohol, let's introduce ourselves.

I'm Teresa Wagner. I'm a registered and licensed dietitian and I have three children.

And I am of the age that social drinking is very popular.

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