You may want to rethink that second glass of wine with dinner. A new study has found that low or moderate drinking is not any better for your health than not drinking at all, which goes against long-held beliefs about alcohol and lifespan.
The report, which was published in JAMA Network Open last month, included analysis of 107 studies from 1980 to 2021 involving more than 4.8 million participants with a median age of about 56 years old. Whereas previous studies concluded that moderate drinkers (those who drank 25 grams of alcohol or less) were less likely to die of all causes, new research suggests that isn’t true.
