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Drinking alcohol in moderation is associated
with better health and longer life than is either abstaining or
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Moderate Alcohol Drinking Reduces Stroke Risk in Women
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Drinking Alcohol and Using Marijuana
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Drinking Alcohol and Risk of Cervical Cancer
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Alcohol Facts:
- The alcohol contents of a regular beer, glass of dinner wine and shot of whiskey or other distilled spirit (80 proof) are all the same. This is alcohol equivalence.
- The U.S. government reports that moderate consumption of alcohol (beer, wine or distilled spirits) improves health and increases longevity.
- Parents have great influence over the choices their children make about alcohol now and in the future.
- Drinking alcohol by students in U.S. middle and high schools has declined to its lowest level in the 36 years that the federal government has surveyed the subject.
- Distilled spirits (whiskey, brandy, rum, tequila, gin, etc.) contain no carbohydrates, no fats of any kind, and no cholesterol. Get the nutrition facts.
