A good drink may still cure a heartache but not heart disease anymore. That's according to recent findings showing that the old belief that the occasional drink could be beneficial to your health is no longer true.
The old research that led to the news that got us all gladly drinking wine before bed was conducted on different groups of drinkers: heavy, moderate, occasional, and non-drinking. But according to Fox61, when the data was reopened researchers found major problems with it. The nondrinking group wasn't really made up of sober souls but old drinkers who quit because they were either recovering alcoholics or were advised to abstain by their doctors due to medical conditions. Put them together with heavy drinkers and the moderate and occasional drinkers just look good by default. When they removed all the studies with the skewed data from the 87 findings, what they found was that the moderate drinkers were no better off than the abstainers.
Drinking alcohol in moderation 'is not actually good for you' https://t.co/X2YcL4dary
— The Independent (@Independent) March 23, 2016
While these new findings aren't saying one to two drinks a day is increasing your risk of kicking the bucket, it's not exactly upping your chances of a longer life as well. Jurgen Rehm, professor and chair of Addiction Policy with the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health tells Health that one drink could even boost the risk of breast cancer.
So if this buzzkill of a news is making you reach for that bottle, by all means, drink to be merry and drink to forget but you won't be drinking to your health.
