Sunday, March 24, 2013

Alcoholism – or Not. It’s Proprietary.




Just before St. Patrick’s Day I half-read an article on Yahoo! Shine that quotes Dr. Richard Saitz (a primary care internist and professor of medicine and epidemiology at Boston University Medical Center) in an unequivocal statement: "Any woman who drinks four drinks is going to feel it, unless she has alcoholism." 

Worse, the article warned, it (alcohol consumption) can cause breast cancer, brain damage, and heart disease” and other dire ailments. 

I say “half-read” because I’ve seen the statistics before. They are nothing new. Yes, it’s true, alcohol is bad for you. But …