Armads said:
Ok I think it's time to provide sources to back up the claims of moderate alcohol use actually beneficial because at this point it's been 14 pages and no ones proven a single point to the other side other then that taste is subjective.
"In the past three decades, almost every follow-up epidemiologic study has demonstrated that individuals who drink small to moderate amounts of alcohol have a lower risk than non-drinkers of dying from coronary heart disease. Among drinkers, the categories with the lowest coronary heart disease rates vary across studies, ranging from less than one drink per day to three to five drinks per day. In most studies, individuals who state that they normally consume six or more drinks per day, or who admit to having problems with alcohol abuse, have rates of dying from heart disease higher than both non-drinkers and moderate drinkers."
http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.823/healthissue_detail.asp
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1336884/
Note these are by US standareds which are different for different countries. If you live in france what you consider moderate drinking may be too much.
"Moderate drinkers tend to have better health and live longer than those who are either abstainers or heavy drinkers do. In addition to having fewer heart attacks and strokes, moderate consumers of alcoholic beverages (beer, wine or distilled spirits or liquor) are generally less likely to suffer hypertension or high blood pressure, peripheral artery disease, Alzheimer's disease and the common cold."
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/HealthIssues/1110565592.html
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/AlcoholAndHealth.html
I know I haven't caught a cold since I was 17 years old (I'm 22) and that's roughly when I started drinking. There's more info on each link so I hope you're clicking and reading each one thoroughly.
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