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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m confused. It’s almost like people are saying alcohol isn’t good for you.[/quote]

No one in the history of time said that alcohol is good for you. People drink because it's fun. [/quote]

That's not true at all. As recently as the 1990s, red wine was "good" for you.

People have been drinking alcohol for thousands of years, rarely with serious effects. It's the overindulgence that has become a problem.[/quote]

I would have to differ with the effect of Europeans introducing alcohol to indigenous populations who haven’t had centuries if not millennia to inure their populations to the worst effects of alcohol. Positive selection, it seems to be called.

Many European populations demonstrate certain adaptations in the form of genes that are associated with increased alcohol tolerance over time. There was definitely a whole cholera epidemic in London in the mid 19th century where mostly women and children who took their water from a certain town pump who were affected vs. men who often drank small beer over the day vs. water.

Asians have known alcohol for similar periods of time but aren’t known to be drunks in general.

Russians, though, for example, somehow consider vodka to be among essential food items. [/quote]

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