There is No Safe Amount of Alcohol. We have been saying…

There is No Safe Amount of Alcohol. We have been saying "drink in moderation" for decades. New research just made that conversation much harder to have. A major analysis, 56 systematic reviews and meta-analyses, published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs just delivered the most comprehensive verdict yet on alcohol and health: No clear health benefit from even low level drinking. None. Not even the famous red wine and heart health story survived this analysis. The numbers are stark: Alcohol-related mortality risk exceeded 1 death per 1,000 people at approximately 6.5 drinks per week for men and 7 drinks per week for women. That is less than one drink per day. The estimated lifetime risk of alcohol-related death exceeded 1 in 100 people at roughly 8.5 drinks per week for both males and females. For males consuming 1