alcohol

I'm often left shaking my head in amazement at the CDC, for both good and bad reasons.

By James McIntosh

One of our readers [1] wrote to us about a recent article in Lancet regarding the role of alcohol in cardiovascular disease. That prompted us to take a look and here is what we found.

We are all aware of the concept of second-hand smoke – the ill effects of smoking on people and the environment other than the smoker; but have you considered second-hand alcohol?

Count vodka maker Smirnoff among the latest companies to jump aboard the anti-science bandwagon.

Intelligent people differ from everyone else in several meaningful ways.

A few weeks ago, the media ran wild with an outlandish claim that an extra glass of wine will take 30 minutes off of your life.

Alcohol is bad again. Sometimes, epidemiologists tell us it's good, but today, they're telling us it's bad. What else is bad? The study that arrived at that conclusion.

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Recently, while watching television, I came across a cast reunion show for the reality series Real Housewives of Orange County (RHOC) on the Bravo network.