LONDON (Reuters) — Drinking is healthy, exercise is healthy, and doing a little of both is even healthier, Danish researchers reported. 

    People who neither drink nor exercise have a 30 to 49 percent higher risk of heart disease than people who do one or both of the activities, the researchers said in the European Heart Journal.

    “The main finding is there seems to be an additional beneficial effect of drinking one to two drinks per day and doing at least moderate physical activity,” said Morten Gronbaek of the University of Southern Denmark, who led the study.

    Several major studies have found that light to moderate drinking — up to two drinks a day on a regular basis — is associated with a lower risk of heart disease, and some have also found this leads to a lower risk of some cancers.

    But the Danish study, one of the largest of its kind to examine the combined effect of drinking and exercise, found there were additional protective effects gained from doing both.

    The researchers collected information on the drinking and exercise habits of nearly 12,000 men and women aged 20 years or older between 1981 and 1983.

    Over the next 20 years, some 1,200 of the participants died from heart disease and about 5,900 died from other causes.

    Non-drinkers had a 30 percent to 31 percent higher risk of heart disease compared to moderate drinkers, no matter the amount of physical activity they undertook. Moderate consumption was defined as between 1 to 14 drinks per week.

    But teetotallers who exercised at least moderately were able to reduce their risk of heart disease, an important finding for people who abstain because of religious beliefs or other health issues such as pregnancy, the researchers said.

    People who had the lowest risk of dying from any cause were physically active, moderate drinkers while those at highest risk were the physically inactive, heavy drinkers, the study found.

    伦敦(路透社)消息：据丹麦研究人员报道，饮酒有利于健康，运动有利于健康，两者兼顾更加有利于健康。

    研究人员在《欧洲心脏杂志》的一篇文章中写道，既不饮酒又不锻炼身体的人比饮酒或者锻炼身体或者两者兼顾的人患心脏疾病的风险高30%至49%。

    “主要的研究结果是，每天饮一两杯­酒并且至少进行适度体育活动似乎具有额外的益处，”该研究的带头人、南丹麦大学的莫滕·格龙贝克说。

    几项主要研究发现，少量至适度饮酒，即经­常性地每天饮酒达两杯­­，与心脏病患病风险较低有关，有些研究也发现这一习惯会降低患某些癌症的风险。

    丹麦此次进行的研究是同类研究中规模最大的研究之一，旨在调查饮酒与锻炼两者的综合作用。该研究发现两者兼顾能获得额外的保护作用。

    研究人员在1981年至1983年之间收集了近1.2万名年龄20岁或者20岁以上的男女的饮酒及运动习惯的资料。

    在接下来的20年间，大约1200名调查对象死于心脏病，约5900名死于其他­原因。

    不论从事体育活动量大小如何，不饮酒者比适度饮酒者患心脏病的风险高30%至31%。适度饮酒，即每周饮酒1至14杯­。

    但是研究人员说，一项重要研究发现，因宗教信仰或怀孕等其他健康问题而戒酒的人，如果适度锻炼身体，就能够降低患心脏病的风险。

    该研究发现，不论导致死亡的因素是什么，死亡风险最低的人们是那些积极参加体育锻炼、适度饮酒的人们，而那些死亡风险最高的人们则是不积极锻炼身体、酗酒的人们。