Will drinking alcohol help you live longer?

Remember the news stories a while back that said moderate drinking of alcohol is beneficial and perhaps life-extending? Those claims have now been rebuffed by researchers at the University of Victoria's Centre for Addictions Research in British Columbia. Jessica Firger reports in Newsweek,

Overall, the review of the data suggests that it was occasional drinkers (categorized as less than one drink per week) who actually lived longest and enjoyed the most robust health. Most likely, this isn’t because a touch of booze is an elixir of life, but rather because the amount of alcohol is too negligible to have effects—bad or good.

Read more about the research here.