It’s often perceived that one glass of red wine can be good for you but current research is challenging this view. So, are there any health benefits from drinking alcohol?
Dr Tanya Chikritzhs, an epidemiologist from Curtin University in Western Australia, has been researching hundreds of studies to find out if there’s any evidence that alcohol can protect against heart disease and cancer. While Creina Stockley, a pharmacologist from the Australian Wine Research Institute, has reviewed and researched the apparent health benefits of alcohol.
Not surprisingly, the findings from the two scientists are quite different.
Dr Norman Swan distils fact from fiction to in order to answer the question, how much is too much?
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Source: Catalyst, ABC
