Talk about a buzzkill. New research suggests there are no healthbenefits to moderate alcoholconsumption.
A meta-analysis of 87 studies on drinking led byDr. Tom Stockwell of the Centre for Addictions Research of BritishColumbia found that “low-volume alcohol consumption has no netmortality benefit compared with lifetime abstention or occasionaldrinking.”
That finding threatens to upend the prevailing belief that thosewho regularly drink small quantities of booze – such as adaily glass of wine – are in fact healthier and live longerthan teetotalers.
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