The Real Effects of Alcohol On Your Body

Here's a much better article on alcohol: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/par7.htm

There are much healthier, perfectly legal, and arguably more fun ways to alter one's neurochemistry than alcohol. If I told you all how to do it though, then dumb kids would take it way too far, the moral panic would ensue, things would get banned for no good reason, and I'd have to go back to drinking alcohol.

Here's the thing: finding evidence in support of any conclusion is pretty easy. What is more difficult and time-consuming is to become deeply familiar with the total body of work on a topic, and to then come to a data-driven conclusion. Unfortunately, this article is an example of the former.

Actual substance aside, articles with a single sentence (or fragment) per paragraph don't come off as highly credible, to me.

There's one he forgot: if you drink enough of it you get drunk.

Are people just not even bothering to format their websites now that Readability/Reader is available? I can't even look at that web page straight.

Cherry-picked studies show alcohol is the devil. News at 11.

To take just one example: Alcohol consumption reduces fat-burning. Um, so does consumption of any substance the body can use as fuel, esp. carbohydrates. However, unlike alcohol, an excess of carbohydrates over fuel needs is stored by the body as fat.

Well, a long list of references... but most of them are a decade old.

Anyone has references to later research which shows that porter, ale and full bodied red wines are healthy?

1/2 :-)