To Your Health?

摘要

Oh, for a beaker of the warm South,/Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, / With beaded bubbles winking at the brim," sighed Keats. Chances are, he wasn't thinking about his arteries. But nearly two centuries later, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services also took a long look at the poet's favorite intoxicant and came up with the first proalcohol message in the history of federal health policy. According to the department's just-released update of its Dietary Guidelines for Americans, a drink or two a day may be good for you. "Alcoholic beverages have been used to enhance the enjoyment of meals by many societies throughout human history," states the background material to the new guidelines. "Current evidence suggests that moderate drinking is associated with a lower risk for coronary heart disease in some individuals."