By Life Quotes, Inc. Staff

New findings from the Nurses’ Healthy Study found that women who drink alcohol moderately may live longer than women who don’t drink, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The study, which monitored more than 84,000 nurses over more than 20 years, found that women who had two alcoholic drinks a day were up to 28 percent more likely to live to age 70 than women who drank once or twice a week.

The Nurses’ study is more in a long line of research that has showed connections between moderate alcohol consumption and reduced rates of diseases. For instance, the newspaper reported that another study released in November concluded that women who had one drink a day had a 20 percent lower risk of suffering from a stroke compared with women who did not drink.

However, Keith Humphrey’s, a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, said in the article that some of the devastating affects of alcohol consumption – like drunk driving crashes and alcohol poisoning – mean that health professionals won’t be writing prescriptions for brewskies anytime soon.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 75 percent of alcohol consumption in the U.S. by adults in in the form of binge drinking, which can lead to higher life insurance premiums due to health risks such cardiovascular disease, diabetes and liver disease.