Health check: is moderate drinking good for me?
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For the past three decades or so, the conventional wisdom has been that drinking alcohol at moderate levels is good for us.
The evidence for this has come from many studies that have suggested the death rate for moderate drinkers is lower than that for non-drinkers. In other words, we thought moderate drinkers lived longer than those who didn’t drink at all.
This phenomenon has been communicated with great impact by the J-shaped curve that shows death rates fall as you move from non-drinking to moderate drinking, before rising again as drinking levels increase.
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