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    Alcohol And Health Effects

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    Go Red! Or is it Go White? Alcohol and Cholesterol

    By Dr. Kang Health Expert
    The French are renown for their exquisite cuisine and fashionable lifestyles. It’s not too hard for us to imagine a French person sitting at a sidewalk café in Paris dining on foie gras, coq au vin, and heavy cheeses, sipping a fine Bordeaux, and smoking several cigarettes to finish off the meal. It also doesn’t seem to be too difficult for us to imagine that same person later experiencing crushing chest pain while walking home and arriving at the nearest ER with a major heart attack.


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