[bnelson44]

Not The Lancet again!

[The_Media_never_lie]

The benefits of being sober are highly overrated too.

[SamAdams76]

there is probably no free lunch

But there are plenty of $4 martini lunches.

[bvw]

We need a study correlating Lancet reading with life expectancy, insanity and criminality.

[always vigilant]

and the leading cause of death is birth. we all die

[mysterio]

I don't notice alcohol being stocked in the health food section anyway. I don't really care if moderate drinking is good for me or not. It's not bad, so that's good enough.

[unixfox]

Drinking in moderation may not be good for you after all, scientists said yesterday.

I never did like scientists.

[Tanniker Smith]

This just in: Studies reveal that Moderate Drinking May be Good for you; However, May Not Be.

[Tanniker Smith]

I'm conducting a study to see whether or not making passionate love to 40-year-old Irish-American guys is good for your health(*) and am looking for female volunteers to fill in a questionaire.

TS

(*) - Secondary purpose is to find out if it's healthy for the 40YOIA Male, at least until his wife finds out.

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

Ethanol is its own reward.

[apackof2]

I can make anybody pretty.
I can make you believe any lie. I can make you pick a fight with somebody twice your size.
Well, I?ve been known to cause a few break-ups,
An' I?ve been known to cause a few births.
Well, I can make you new friends, or get you fired from work.

And since the day I left Milwaukee,
Lynchburg an' Bordeaux, France,
Been making the bars lots of big money,
An' helpin' white people dance.
I got you in trouble in High School,
But College, now that was a ball.
You had some of the best times you?ll never remember with me:
Alcohol; Alcohol.

I got blamed at your wedding reception,
For your best man?s embarrassing speech.
And also for those naked pictures of you at the beach.
I?ve influenced Kings and world leaders,
I helped Hemingway write like he did.
And I?ll bet you a drink or two, that I can make you put
that lampshade on your head.

?Cause since the day I left Milwaukee,
Lynchburg and Bordeaux, France,
I been making a fool out of folks just like you,
An' helping white people dance.
I am medicine and I am poison,
I can help you up or make you fall.
You had some of the best times you?ll never remember with me:
Alcohol.

Yeah, since the day I left Milwaukee,
Lynchburg an' Bordeaux, France,
Been making the bars lots of big money,
(Helpin' white people dance.)
Yeah, I got you in trouble in High School,
But College, now that was a ball.
You had some of the best times you?ll never remember with me:
Alcohol; Alcohol.

(Alcohol.)
(Alcohol.)

[mcg2000]

Does someone really need a study to tell you these things? Who organized this study, Al Gore?

[crazyhorse691]

OK, who typed the title into the keywords? And can I have some of what made you do that?

[JTHomes]

Fine, heavy drinking it is then.

[Sir_Humphrey]

Dr Rod Jackson and colleagues from the University of Auckland in New Zealand..

But there's more old drunks then there are old doctors so I guess we better have another round.

[labette]

I wonder if the "experts" considered if the benefit might be partly the result of allowing yourself to unwind after a hectic day. { As opposed to working the body and mind to death till bedtime }
A frosty brew is an old vice that I still enjoy.

[Lancer_N3502A]

*hic*...I'll...*hic*...drink to that.

[RichInOC]

It might not be. But one hundred percent of teetotalers...die anyway.

[Billthedrill]

Clearly a great deal more research is needed. I'm doing my part for science, because I'm just that kind of selfless guy.

[Drammach]

Okay, but will light drinking hurt you?

So it doesn't help as much as they thought..
I don't really care about that... It's too bad, but hey, tough..

Just tell me that a little wine at Christmas and New Years doesn't hurt you..
I'll be fine..
Really..