Talk about a buzzkill. New research suggests there are no health benefits to moderate alcohol consumption.
A meta-analysis of 87 studies on drinking led by Dr. Tom Stockwell of the Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia found that “low-volume alcohol consumption has no net mortality benefit compared with lifetime abstention or occasional drinking.”
That finding threatens to upend the prevailing belief that those who regularly drink small quantities of booze – such as a daily glass of wine – are in fact healthier and live longer than teetotalers.
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