If you are slightly on the heavier side, think twice before consuming alcohol. Twin studies on the effects of drinking have revealed that obesity and alcohol act together to elevate the risk of cirrhosis, a chronic disease of the liver, as well as other liver ailments.
The British Medical Journal has reported that obese people who drink at least a glass of wine daily have almost double the risk of liver diseases than others.
Researchers from the University of Glasgow claim that alcohol consumption by obese people causes a double whammy effect, wherein two different causes of liver diseases together impact on a person's liver, and the impact of the attack is much higher than the sum of the causes.
Study conducted on a million women