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What Are the Health Implications of Alcohol Consumption?

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The harmful effects of alcohol are far better known than the beneficial effects. This is scarcely surprising: it requires no training in epidemiology to recognize the devastating harm that often comes with both drunkenness and chronic alcohol abuse. However, findings that have emerged in recent years have uncovered several surprising associations between moderate intake of alcohol and enhanced health and well-being.

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This chapter is a revision of a previous version co-authored with Eric Rimm and published in the second edition of this book. The author thanks Dr Rimm for his substantial contributions.

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Temple, N.J. (2012). What Are the Health Implications of Alcohol Consumption?. In: Temple, N., Wilson, T., Jacobs, Jr., D. (eds) Nutritional Health. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-894-8_15

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