Moderate drinking good for health? Not so fast ...

[Robin Garr]

Well, this isn't good ...

Moderate Drinking Has No Health Benefits, Analysis of Decades of Research Finds
A massive meta-study has found that the methodology of many previous studies was flawed and that risk of myriad health problems increased significantly after less than two drinks a day for women and after three for men.

Gift link (no paywall) to the article in The New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/heal ... ticleShare

Did anyone ever believe it was actually good for health? I remember some folks used to try to justify their love of a glass or two of red wine. But these nutritional studies were always such poor quality, filled with confounders, and intuitively alcohol is something to be managed with care...

[Robin Garr]

Did anyone ever believe it was actually good for health? I remember some folks used to try to justify their love of a glass or two of red wine. But these nutritional studies were always such poor quality, filled with confounders, and intuitively alcohol is something to be managed with care...

"Believe," Rahsaan, or "wishfully hope"?

In fairness, the key word consistently through all the publicized studies has been "moderate," and that was generally defined pretty strictly as two standard drinks a day for men, one for women. But yeah, I've always said that taking wine/alcohol as medicine doesn't make sense.

[David M. Bueker]

I emphatically don't give a damn!

[Robin Garr]

I emphatically don't give a damn!

I think you speak for many here …