Is a Glass of Wine Harmless? Wrong Question.
The latest alcohol advice ignores the value of pleasure.
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Not so long ago, alcohol was good for you. In a , a French researcher that red-wine consumption was responsible for good health in France. This argument proved popular with the wine-consuming public, and prompted academic an inverse relationship between red-wine consumption and cardiovascular disease. Scientists even put forward a mechanistic theory for why.
