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" Take your vitamins. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Drink in moderation. All standard advice, yes, but some things should be better tailored to the needs of women. After all, health care isn&amp;#039;t one-sex-fits-all. We talked to the experts and found out female-specific health advice\u2014on topics from sleep to alcohol intake\u2014for those of us without a Y chromosome.    General Health Advice: Drink in Moderation    For Women: Limit your alcohol intake to one drink per day, and try not to drink every day. When it comes to alcohol consumption, the standard health advice has been for men and women to limit their daily alcohol intake to the following units: one drink for women, two drinks for men. Here&amp;#039;s why: &amp;quot;Women may sustain greater liver damage with alcohol intake or the same liver damage but with less consumption of alcohol than a man,&amp;quot; says Z. Colette Edwards, MD, an internist and vice president and senior market medical executive for CIGNA HealthCare Mid-Atlantic in Columbia, Maryland.   Yet what may be even more important is the frequency of drinking. While men may be able to drink in moderation daily with little consequence, the same may not be true of women. Recent research indicates an alarming correlation between daily drinking\u2014even moderate drinking\u2014and breast cancer in women. Your best bet? Don&amp;#039;t drink every day, even if it is in moderation.    "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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