Alcohol Is Good for Your Heart -- Most of the Time (time.com)

Alcohol, in moderation, has a reputation for being healthy for the heart. Drinking about a glass of wine for women per day, and two glasses for men, is linked to a lower risk of heart attack, stroke and death from heart disease. From a report on Time: A new study of nearly two million people published in The BMJ adds more evidence that moderate amounts of alcohol appear to be healthy for most heart conditions -- but not all of them. The researchers analyzed the link between alcohol consumption and 12 different heart ailments in a large group of U.K. adults. None of the people in the study had cardiovascular disease when the study started. People who did not drink had an increased risk for eight of the heart ailments, ranging from 12 percent to 56 percent, compared to people who drank in moderation. These eight conditions include the most common heart events, such as heart attack, stroke and sudden heart-related death.

Comments

Not every day

[avandesande]

I don't drink every day. When I do it feels like a habit and it is less enjoyable, so I limit myself to one or two drinks a week. How many people fall into this group?

"glass of wine has heathful benefits"

[k6mfw]

Usual headline for article about studies performed by doctors, studies funded by companies in the Napa county area of Calif when wine sales are sluggish. Need positive articles to help boost sales. I haven't RFTA, done data analysis on wine sales, but I wonder at times...

Re:Two glasses of wine per day would wreck me

[TechyImmigrant]

Not so quick. The body will convert its protein stores (i.e. muscles) to energy before dying.

If you have standard Western metabolic disorder, your body will convert its protein stores to energy even if there's lots of fat both floating around and stored in adipose tissue. Your brain will ignore the leptin your fat cells are producing, the insulin will tell your fat cells to hang onto the fat and you will be hungry regardless. This is the essence of metabolic disorder. That is what it is. It does not explain why, which if we understood fully we would solve the problem. Low carb is an effective hack to reduce insulin so your brain sees the leptin again, you stop being hungry and insulin drops so fat from fat cells gets used. But this only lasts until the fat cells are empty enough and the Leptin goes away - then you are depressed and hungry. It is why post obese people are not like people who've been lean all their lives. It is why calorie counting is bullshit - it ignores the broken feedback in the system.