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Moderate Drinking: Abstainers Should try It for Better Health and Longer Life?

Drinking and Good Health Moderate drinking leads to better health and longer life. Doctors have long known this. The alcohol can be beer, wine or spirits. Doctors also know many of the ways in which moderate drinking causes better health Alcohol raises HDL or “good” cholesterol level. It lowers LDL or “bad cholesterol.” Drinking improves …

Should older people drink alcohol less often? Should they drink less volume? Some writers urge that older people drink less alcohol. They think it would “protect their bodies and minds.” But Dr. Erik Skovenborg disagrees. He says people don’t develop low alcohol tolerance when they turn 65. That idea “is a myth based on plain …