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An article by Stanton Peele makes the case that there is strong evidence that reasonable levels of drinking are healthy, and if fact beneficial to your health compared with abstinence.
For all levels of drinking, including the highest one, for both men and women, death rates did not reach those for abstainers.
[...] Of course, abstainers may not drink because they are already ill. Thus the meta-analysis relied on studies that eliminated subjects who are abstaining due to illness, or else contrast drinkers with lifetime abstainers.
There isn't a list of references in the article, but this study may be one of the supporting ones: Alcohol Dosing and Total Mortality in Men and Women: An Updated Meta-analysis of 34 Prospective Studies.
There are, no doubt, reasonable criticisms that can be made, but there does seem to be a case for saying that drinking some alcohol is beneficial.
Article also published in: Pacific Standard Magazine
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 28 2014, @07:35PM
One of the things that I like about living in Texas is that I may serve alcohol to my own kids. In public. With no legal worries. My kid is 14, can't stand beer, likes a few really sweet fruity or creamy drinks, but most of the time takes a sip and turns up his nose at alcohol.
My parents raised me in a similar manner. I could have alcoholic drinks inside my own home. As a result, there was no mystique when I went to high school and friends wanted to go someplace and drink beer. It just didn't appeal to me and I think that kept me out of no small amount of trouble.
Now, I'm described by this study. I have 1-2 drinks probably 4-5 days per week. I don't think it has affected me negatively in any way, and has probably provided some stress-reducing benefits!