“Alcohol in moderation is good for you.” This has been the conclusion of countless scientific studies. That apple a day to keep the doctor away, according to researchers, should be served with a nice glass of Pinot. Many (myself excluded of course) have used these findings as an excuse to partake in not-so-moderate habits. Can’t have too much of a good thing, right? But what if it’s not the moderate drinking that is keeping people healthy, but just that healthy people tend to drink moderately?
“The moderate drinkers tend to do everything right — they exercise, they don’t smoke, they eat right and they drink moderately,” said Kaye Middleton Fillmore, a retired sociologist from the University of California, San Francisco, who has criticized the research. “It’s very hard to disentangle all of that, and that’s a real problem.”
From The New York Times: Alcohol’s Good for You? Some Scientists Doubt It
