Ask the doctor: Any health benefits in dessert drinks?
The evidence for this is quite strong, though not definitive. However, a definitive study is not likely ever to be done. That's because it would require randomly assigning some people to never drink alcohol and others to drink only a moderate amount, every day, for many years. That would be pretty hard to pull off. And it would take thousands of people, studied over a decade or more, which would be pretty expensive.
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