The Dry January Effect

Now that the British fad is taking hold in the U.S., research shows that losing booze for a month has several health benefits—sometimes months later

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Bottoms down: It’s Dry January.

For Heather Molnar that means holding the gin in her gin and tonic for the rest of the month and substituting that end-of-day glass of wine with kombucha.

“I like to put it in a wine glass or something fancy,” says Ms. Molnar, a 46-year-old content strategist who lives in Morris Plains, N.J.

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