Generally, doing things in moderation is way better than going to extremes. Drinking moderately as a culture may be correlated with eating moderately, exercisin

Generally, doing things in moderation is way better than going to extremes. Drinking moderately as a culture may be correlated with eating moderately, exercising moderately, etc. In any case it has always seemed clear to me that studies showing beneficial effects of moderate alcohol consumption are heavily influenced by some combination of paying interest-groups and the researchers really wanting to justify a daily beer/wine glass. The clearest evidence for me that a glass a day can not possibly be healthy is the effect just a single glass has on athletic performance the next day. For the record I do drink and have for a long time, but have no illusions about the negative effects.