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Drink to Your Health? [Preview]

Three decades of research shows that drinking small to moderate amounts of alcohol has cardiovascular benefits. A thorny issue for physicians is whether to recommend drinking to some patients

By Arthur L. Klatsky















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Addressing an Illinois temperance society in 1842, Abraham Lincoln

said something about ¿intoxicating liquor¿ that probably got a frosty reception. ¿It is true that ... many were greatly injured by it,¿ the future president noted. ¿But none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing.¿


This article was originally published with the title Drink to Your Health?.



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