Well, "moderate" drinking is pretty vague, but "up to seven drinks a week" (each drink containing 14 g. of EtOh) is pretty specific. 
 
Heart failure, on the other hand is a very broad endpoint (like death), representing dozens of different primary diagnoses/causes, so it is not clear what exactly is being prevented. And the study also points out a well established relationship to death from all causes. The interesting thing to me is that the increased death risk for >21 drinks per week was 47% for men but 89% for women. So does that mean women are more vulnerable to the effects of alcohol or just that over the lifespan period studied men are more likely to die of other causes, making the effect of alcohol more obvious in women? 
 
I would consider going to the journal to see how much granularity there is in the reported data, but I think I will have a gin &  tonic instead.
 

The primary reason we have a problem with chronic cardiovascular disease is our diet.  The right food (80% vegetables, no sugar, no artificial fats [unfortunately]) is the answer.  Corporate food products are the problem.
The secondary reason is too much sitting, sitting, and more sitting.  I like to stand when i work on Sonar, and when i sit, i sit on a drum stool.  I think that's really all there is to it, IMHO.
 

QuadCore
The secondary reason is too much sitting, sitting, and more sitting.  I like to stand when i work on Sonar, and when i sit, i sit on a drum stool.  I think that's really all there is to it, IMHO.
 

I need to integrate one of these in my studio routine. 

 
 

"i ain't drunk,
i'm just drinkin'"

Drinking even moderately is said to increase the risk to get cancer.

Zappa said it best when he sang: 
 
The Dangerous Kitchen
If it ain't one thing it's another...

Rain
Zappa said it best when he sang: 
 
The Dangerous Kitchen
If it ain't one thing it's another...

You probably won't want to read this juicy piece of scaremongering then...
 
http://www.dailymail.co.u...rt-disease-cancer.html

QuadCore
The primary reason we have a problem with chronic cardiovascular disease is our diet.  The right food (80% vegetables, no sugar, no artificial fats [unfortunately]) is the answer.  Corporate food products are the problem.
The secondary reason is too much sitting, sitting, and more sitting.  I like to stand when i work on Sonar, and when i sit, i sit on a drum stool.  I think that's really all there is to it, IMHO.
 

I have a general rule of thumb which says "if it's advertised on TV, it's probably unhealthy." Not only that but way overpriced. Sometimes I'll go into someone's apartment and look in the kitchen cupboards and EVERYTHING is a big name TV brand. I was looking at someone's box of Kellogs cereal the other day and the price was almost $8. I can get the Whole Foods version of that cereal for half the price, organic mind you, and the ingredients are so much more healthy.
 
As for sitting, well many years ago I got rid of my sofa and vowed to never own one again. I sit on office chairs, that sort of thing. My back is a zillion and five times healthier for it.

I Am sticking to my 6 pack of Abita Springs Amber beer and pizza! No more no less!

sharke
 
 
I have a general rule of thumb which says "if it's advertised on TV, it's probably unhealthy." Not only that but way overpriced. Sometimes I'll go into someone's apartment and look in the kitchen cupboards and EVERYTHING is a big name TV brand. I was looking at someone's box of Kellogs cereal the other day and the price was almost $8. I can get the Whole Foods version of that cereal for half the price, organic mind you, and the ingredients are so much more healthy.

Ditto. In fact, I mostly buy stuff that's not packaged, processed and transformed. 
 
I hate buying meat from WF though.
 
They screwed us for the last time a few days ago - we bought what we thought would be a delicious roast beef, because we wanted to cook a nice dinner for my mother-in-law who was in town. Plus, I hadn't eaten a roast beef in years. Cost us $27 for that piece of meat. 
 
I managed to chew off ONE tiny chunk. And I earned that tiny little bit, trust me. Dinner was a fiasco.
 
We ended up throwing away the whole thing - though I really felt like driving to WF and literally throwing it at them, sauce and all. 
 
This was their second and last screw up on meat.
 
Almost $30. Man, I can get an EZ Drummer expansion or a Waves plug-in for that price! :P