[填空题]One of the most controversial issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don’t drink actually tend to die sooner than those who do. The standard Alcoholics Anonymous explanation for this fmding is that many of those who show up as abstainers (戒酒者 ) in such research are actually former hard-core dnmks who had already incurred health problems associated with drinking.
But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that--for reasons that aren’t entirely clear--abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one’s risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part Abstainers’ mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers.
Moderate drinking, which is defined as one to three drinks per day, is associated with the lowest mortality rates in alcohol studies. Moderate alcohol use (especially when the beverage of choice is red wine) is th