erate might mean one to three drinks per week, while to another it could mean a night of binge drinking one night per week, or only drinking on weekends and special occasions. Unfortunately due to individual, cultural and physiological differences it is nearly impossible to determine what moderate, therefor also making it hard to determine how much alcohol and at what frequency is necessary to properly prevent hear disease. Other unresolved issues surrounding this subject are the concerns that problem drinkers may misconstrue this information as a means of justifying their drinking or people that engage in other risky behaviors such as smoking, lack of exercise or poor nutrition may continue to live these lifestyles.Stanton Peele, author of Physicians Recommend Alcohol to Their Patients? believes that this is an option that should in fact be explored by all physicians. He maintains that people are not so foolish and impressionable that they will become addicted to alcohol if a doctor recommends moderate amounts to help maintain a healthy lifestyle. Peele concludes that one two to alcoholic drinks (beer or wine in particular) will in fact lead to healthier cardiac health. Peele reveals several studies to show that moderate alcohol consumption has been in fact proven to promote a healthier lifestyle. Some of the information Peele reports is, researchers have found that women who drank up to two drinks a day lived longer than abstainers, men who drink occasionally outlive abstainers and people who drink one or two drinks a day had the lowest mortality rate. Peele illustrates that the recommendation of alcohol by physicians is now a common practice and has been since the U.S. dietary guidelines were published in 1996.Albert B. Lowenfels is the author of, Should Physicians Recommend Alcohol to Their Patients? No. Lowenfel sites that it the difficulty in determining what the target group will be in recommending moderate alcohol use. ...
