Drink up! No, really, it's okay.
Don't you hate it that science is always coming up with some new research that tells us that something that we were told years ago would benefit us is really going to kill us? I can give you a prime example - HRT. Hormone Replacement Therapy. For years, women of a certain age were told that it was the magic pill, the key to keeping ourselves young and supple, and many of us took the little magic pills. Then one day out of a clear blue sky comes new research that proves rather definitively that, as young and supple as we might be, our chances of getting certain forms of cancer were greatly increased! Every year it seems that some researcher comes up with another of these magic formulas and everybody jumps on the bandwagon and then a few years later we find that it wasn't magic after all. Vitamin D3 was another recent example. Anyway, happily, it works the other way around as well. Sometimes we find out that things which we thought were bad for us, or a...