Healthful Drinking: No More Than Four

For years, Americans have been lying to their doctors about how much alcohol they drink. The standard response? Two drinks a day. Now, thanks to a study conducted by researchers at the Catholic University of Campobasso, Italy (who cares that no one ever heard of it?), they can crank up the number to four drinks a day for men, and two drinks a day for women. The Scientific American reports that the scientists, who pooled data from 34
large studies involving more than one million people and 94,000
deaths, concluded that drinking a moderate amount of
alcohol — up to four drinks per day in men and two drinks per
day in women — reduces the risk of death from any cause by
roughly 18 percent. But, the researchers warned, those numbers are the limits, and things "radically change" when people exceed them.
Read more about the study in the Archives of Internal Medicine.