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A glass of wine a day helps ward off heart disease? A bit of alcohol is good for you?

Nope.

http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h407

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Research over recent years leads inexorably to the conclusion that for a range of reasons, including confounding and selection bias in the papers generally cited, even low level alcohol consumption is unlikely to protect drinkers from cardiovascular disease
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Alcohol companies and their organisations assiduously promoted this evidence, both to reassure their customers and to argue against population level policies aimed at reducing the harms.
Who'd have thought it.

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Rob Shepherd says...
"A bit of alcohol is good for you?

Nope."
Yup.
This bottle of Old Peculiar is currently reducing my stress level after a particularly sh*tty nights work.
...and even if it isn't


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If you reduce your alcohol intake you won't live any longer. But it sure will feel like it! ;)

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“I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day-”        Frank Sinatra

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Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary