> drink a glass or two of red wine a day The red wine thing is bullshit, as mentioned in the article. Wine and beer actually have problematic amounts of estrog

> drink a glass or two of red wine a day The red wine thing is bullshit, as mentioned in the article. Wine and beer actually have problematic amounts of estrogen. If you're going to drink, quality clear spirits are best. If there's anything special about red wine it's probably the small dose of salicylate. Might as well just take a baby aspirin if you buy into that. I don't buy the idea that alcohol itself is particularly biologically medicinal; I think the benefits are entirely by way of psycho-social well being. At a simple biological level alcohol, at even pretty high amounts, is merely benign. That said, problems like fatty liver disease appear to be often be the result of the interaction between alcohol metabolism and stored polyunsaturated fats. So if you're going to drink a lot, eat a low PUFA diet.