Booze: It Does a Body Good
Latest entry into the now bursting ledger of evidence that moderate drinking is healthy is a Harvard School of Public Health study which found that young women could cut their risk of Type 2 diabetes by one-third to one-half by having a drink or two a day.
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It amuses me to see the enormous list of possible/probable health benefits of light to moderate drinking at the end of the Wine Spectator article, yet our prohibitionist laws keep me from benefitting at all (officially, of course).