Given the similarities in existing evidence about moderate drinking and physical activity, despite widespread consensus that physical activity prevents cardiovascular disease, there seems no reason to assume that studies on moderate alcohol consumption are uniquely confounded.
And hasn't there been some news about how moderate drinking and social time with friends helps us shed stress and live longer?
Even avid supporters of moderate drinking temper their recommendations with warnings about the dangers of alcohol, which has been tied to breast cancer and can lead to accidents even when consumed in small amounts, and is linked with liver disease, cancers, heart damage and strokes when consumed in larger amounts.
The majority of villagers agreed with a statement that moderate drinking was good for health (82.2 %); about half agreed with a statement that excessive drinking was bad (52.9 %).
For moderate drinking, several authors have raised particular concern about the possibility of uncontrolled or residual confounding, in which unmeasured or poorly measured factors that differ between drinkers and abstainers are responsible for the apparently lower risk among drinkers [ 7- 10].
They are also more likely to tell you about the health benefits of moderate drinking — how it lowers one's risk of heart disease, Alzheimer's, and so on.
Did I tell you about the study that showed that moderate drinking of red wine might ward off dementia in women?
This analysis has spurred widespread discussion about the limits of observed studies of moderate drinking [ 11].
However, given continuing uncertainty about the apparent cardio-protective effects of moderate drinking, and increasing evidence that heavy drinking raises the risk of ischaemic heart disease [ 14] and stroke [ 15, 16] this is a major gap in the literature.
Initially, some college presidents said they worried about the approach because it seems to endorse moderate drinking, when most college students are under the legal drinking age of 21.
