Is Booze Good For You?

According to this article, it's too hard to tell.

Study after study suggests that alcohol in moderation may promote heart health and even ward off diabetes and dementia. The evidence is so plentiful that some experts consider moderate drinking — about one drink a day for women, about two for men — a central component of a healthy lifestyle.

But what if it’s all a big mistake?

For some scientists, the question will not go away. No study, these critics say, has ever proved a causal relationship between moderate drinking and lower risk of death — only that the two often go together. It may be that moderate drinking is just something healthy people tend to do, not something that makes people healthy.

Who cares? I don't drink because it's healthy, I drink because it's awesome. All this health crap is starting to annoy me. Who wants to live a long life without cheese, booze, and bacon. As Henry Miller says, "life is meant to be lived."

Damn straight.