There's no study that shows that more than 1-2 standard drinks at a time is good for you. Anyone in this category is almost certainly not a problem drinker. Ho

There's no study that shows that more than 1-2 standard drinks at a time is good for you. Anyone in this category is almost certainly not a problem drinker. However i'd be surprised if there was a positive biological effect from alcohol. It's not unreasonable to presume that such moderate drinking probably correlates with all sorts of other health related lifestyle choices. From my entirely anecdotal world view the most healthy people i know still have a couple drinks every now and then (but dont drink excessively regularly). It's almost impossible to control for all these factors in a study Most of the non-drinkers i know do so because they don't like the taste/have alcoholic parents/are teetotal due to addiction and have no correlation in terms of other behaviors.