DAMNED if you do - drammed if you don't!
When it comes to drinking alcohol, both long term abstinence and heavy drinking may increase dementia risk, but for different reasons, according to new research published in the British Medical Journal.
People who either abstain from alcohol - or consume more than 14 units a week - during middle age are at increased risk of developing dementia, French and UK researchers found.
In abstainers, increased risks were attributed in some measure to increased rates of cardiometabolic disease.
Now about that nightcap habit...
CLICK HERE for the research.
A Russian man has died in a bizarre bathroom accident, after slipping over and landing on a toilet brush which tragically stabbed him through the eye.
The incident took place in the town of Istra near Moscow, with the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper reporting the 60-year-old was rushed to hospital to have the implement removed.
Unfortunately his skull had to be opened to give access to the toilet brush handle, and the head surgery left him in a coma.
He was moved to a hospital closer to home for further treatment, but sadly never regained consciousness and died a few days later.
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