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The question stated "2 or 3". Doctors generally agree that one or two, depending on body weight, is good for your heart, but the high caloric content of alcohol may offset much of the cardiac value. Especially if the patient is either overweight already, or may be inclined to creep from "2 or 3" to 3 or 4 or 5 or 6.
A man could probably drink 2 a day, and otherwise watch his weight, and safely say that it not harmful to his health. But 2 is the upper limit and drinking two and keeping calories down could result in lowered consumption of nutrition.
I drink a glass or two of wine most every night with dinner, and sometimes I worry that it's harmful or too much. I enjoy it, and find it relaxes me at the end of a long, and often stressful day.
I gave up cigarettes 10 years ago, thank goodness for that.
Stress can kill you too. I've decided that if I didn't drink a little now and then, the stress in my life would have killed me a long time ago.
If you think drinking two glasses of wine is bad for you, then it probably will be somehow.
If you can drink a glass or two of wine a night and enjoy it, that would probably be good for you.
There are those out there who would lead you to believe that drinking two drinks per day can be better for you than just being a teetotaler.
Two beers, two glasses of wine? I suppose if I had this choice, I'd do the latter. The problem with me is that those would have to be "right-sized" glasses of wine.
For many many people, it's just food... not an abused drug.
Alcoholism, or addiction to any other substance for that matter, is not defined by the amount of the substance the person in question actually consumes. Rather, what better defines addiction is that person's need, or dependence on the substance.
Ergo, if one guy absolutely needs those two or three beers every night, and spends an inordinate amount of time during the day thinking about them, and is also uncomfortable and irritable if per chance he doesn't get to have those beers one night, then I'd hazard to say that that person has a very possible addiction problem.
On the other hand, let's say Joe Blue Collar worker knocks back 5 or 6 beers after work with his buds on the tailgates of their pickups three or four times a week, but doesn't really care if he goes a week or so without doing this. (And he doesn't even give this practice enough thought to dream of posting the alcoholism question on CD.)
I'd say that, given these two scenarios, the "two beer" dude is more of an alcoholic.
Just my dos centavos as a recovering alcoholic.
sorry to rejuvenate such an old thread but the medical opinion seems to be that as little as 2 beers a day can lead to cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, stomach and liver. Note that I said 2 beers a day without any breaks and if it's done over a period of years.. say 10-15 years.
Best is to drink occasionally 1-3 beers (for special events or once in a while) or not at all.
I drink four to six a day, every day and more on weekends. My liver, kidney and other blood test results came back today and all is good! I should mention that it's lite beer I drink.
Several doctors have told me that 1-2 beers a day helps give you all the vitamins you need on a daily basis. I have been drinking 1-2 of 12oz beers a day just before dinner for the past 48 years and have not had any signs of the above mentioned diseases. I get a blood test every 6 months and all my organs test normal. I also have no vitamin deficiency either.
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Thanks for the laugh!
