Moderate alcohol consumption inversely correlated with all-cause mortality

My roommate recently sent me a review article that LW might find interesting:

Conclusions: Low levels of alcohol intake (1-2 drinks per day for women and 2-4 drinks per day for men) are inversely associated with total mortality in both men and women. Our findings, while confirming the hazards of excess drinking, indicate potential windows of alcohol intake that may confer a net beneficial effect of moderate drinking, at least in terms of survival.

Personal observation says that LWers tend not to drink very much or often. Perhaps that should change, to the degree suggested by the article?

Full article here.

My roommate recently sent me a review article that LW might find interesting:

Conclusions: Low levels of alcohol intake (1-2 drinks per day for women and 2-4 drinks per day for men) are inversely associated with total mortality in both men and women. Our findings, while confirming the hazards of excess drinking, indicate potential windows of alcohol intake that may confer a net beneficial effect of moderate drinking, at least in terms of survival.

Personal observation says that LWers tend not to drink very much or often. Perhaps that should change, to the degree suggested by the article?

Full article here.

As has been pointed out., people who don't drink are weird for reasons other than the fact they don't drink (the most obvious one being that a large number of them are recovering alcoholics). Since an interventional study is pretty much impossible here, we'd need some natural experiment (something using drinking bans in Arab countries might work?) to have any real idea if there is causation. Until then, I suggest not-drinking is almost certainly less bad than drinking too much - and perhaps a more natural Schelling point than "I only drink 1-2 drinks per day").

and perhaps a more natural Schelling point than "I only drink 1-2 drinks per day"

This looks like conjecture. I regularly have a pint of beer (about 1.5 UK standard measures) with dinner and don't particularly feel I'm on a slippery slope either way.