Higher total alcohol consumption, including beer and spirits, associated with better health
Moderate beer and spirit drinkers may be just as "healthy" as wine drinkers, suggests a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The research shows that alcohol drinkers reported less subjective ill health than non-drinkers. But it was the overall quantity of alcohol consumed, rather than beverage type that had most impact on health. The researchers looked at connections between the amount and type of alcohol consumed and subjective assessments of ill health in over 19,000 adults who had taken part in the 1993 Spanish National Health Survey. Factors leading to potential bias in the findings, such as age, employment, physical activity, smoking and socioeconomic stat