The Importance of Drinking

Tim Stockwell is a professor of psychology at the University of Victoria in Canada. He used to think that alcohol was good for your heart, until he met sociologist Kay Fillmore. She started looking into studies that have been done on people who don't drink and found something kind of shocking. They were more likely to be unhealthy than those who drank but then stopped because they weren't well. So Tim and Kay thought, let's only look at the studies that we trust, like those that don't have this problem with sick quitters. When they did that and ran the numbers, then all of a sudden alcohol wasn't good for you anymore.

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