Good reasons to drink alcohol.

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Alcohol is generally perceived as a dangerous beverage for human consumption.  It is a risk factor, for example, for a host of human diseases including cirrhosis of the liver, hepatitis, and cancer.  Drink driving in which a driver consumes alcohol excessively is also associated with road accidents and heavy fatalities.  Although it is often associated with this cost to consumers, alcohol can provide a number of health benefits to consumers.


Alcohol has the potential to decrease mortality rate, which is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a population.  A major cause of early mortality is heart diseases such as stroke and artherosclerosis associated with build up of fatty substances (bad cholesterol) on the arteries walls and thickening of these walls.  Consuming alcohol in moderation has been found to decrease mortality rate by inhibiting or preventing the build up of bad cholesterol which is responsible for build up of plaques on the artery walls and enhancing the production of good cholesterol needed by the body.  In the United Kingdom moderate drinking of alcohol can be interpreted using the recommended safe limits for alcohol consumption.

The recommended safe limits for alcohol consumptions in the United Kingdom is between 3 – 4 units of alcohol per day for men, and between 2 - 3 units of alcohol per day for women.  In addition, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) advises that men should drink not more than 21 units of alcohol per week and women should drink not more than 14 units per week.  In other words, adults should have 2 – 3 days per week free of alcohol consumption.  In the United Kingdom, a unit of alcohol is defined as 10 millilitres of the substance.  The number of units in any given alcohol is obtained by multiplying the volume of drink (usually in millilitres) by the percentage of Alcohol by Volume (ABV).  This means that 285 ml of beer at 7 % ABV is:
285 x 7     =  2 units
  1000

Adhering to this recommended level of alcohol consumption can be beneficial to the body. it can help for example in preventing diabetes.  Diabetes is usually triggered by high levels of insulin in the blood which cannot be absorbed by the body.  Consuming alcohol in moderation helps in metabolism of sugar in the body and reduces the build up of insulin responsible for diabetes.

It must be stated that this article is not trying to use these benefits to advocate for alcohol consumption in one way or another.  Instead it is highlighting the good things about alcohol which are often neglected by the general public.  As you have seen above, alcohol is only beneficial to consumers if it is consumed in moderation.  Excessive consumption of alcohol is harmful to health and causes early mortality.  People who are not alcohol consumers should not use because of the aforementioned benefits to begin to consume the beverage.  Lastly, alcohol consumption is not recommended for certain categories of people including those with high blood pressure and former alcohol addicts.

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