Bigstan said:Please provide evidence (not hearsay) to prove that getting drunk occasionally is detrimental to one's health?
Just found this from Erowid:
"In the Nurses' Health Study, for example, women who typically consumed three to nine drinks a week were 30 percent more likely than nondrinkers to develop breast cancer. Other studies have indicated that one drink a day is associated with an increased breast cancer risk of from 18 to 40 percent."
Yet the same article also mentions:
"A report from a 10-year study of nearly 130,000 men and women by researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., found that people who typically consumed one or two drinks a day were 30 percent less likely to die from coronary heart disease than people who abstained from alcohol."
I will keep on hunting