Possible health benefits of moderate consumption of alcohol are frequently debated in the healthcare community. Cardiologists, for example, are convinced that any amount of alcohol is neither beneficial nor safe. If you can avoid drinking alcohol completely, go ahead, physicians say. Some of them do not divide alcohol and its portions into healthy and unhealthy. Even the experts who are not so much concerned about the damage made by little alcohol do not advise this substance for teetotalers – no risk at all is always better.
Apparently, alcoholic drinks are too popular for consumers to entirely refuse from them so that many people prefer to think that a moderate amount of alcohol is favorable for one’s mood and well-being. Physicians advise healthy adults to limit their consumption of alcohol to one drink per day for women and two drinks for men. One drink is equal 50 milliliters of distilled spirits, or 150 milliliters of wine, or 350 milliliters of beer. Consuming a minimal amount of alcohol, people shall make sure that they are not going to drive and have no contraindications such as pregnancy or illness.
Despite all possible risks, numerous studies have provided an evidence that alcoholic drinks of high quality are made from ingredients of natural origin and contain antioxidants as well as essential nutrients. Bacteria multiplying in beer as it brews enhance the resistance of our body to pathogenic germs. Iron, magnesium, potassium, and other minerals found in red wine improve blood-forming function. These and more benefit may happen to those who are careful with the consumption of alcohol but do not refuse from drinking completely.