Moderate Drinkers May Toast Research Finding They Live Longer

Drinking two or three glasses of wine, beer or cocktails daily helped older adults live longer than teetotalers in a study.

Research on 1,824 adults ages 55 to 65 found that moderate and heavy drinkers were less likely to die than abstainers over 20 years, said scientists at the University of Texas in Austin and Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Moderate drinkers were defined as having one to two a day while heavy drinkers had three or more daily, according to the study in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.