Light to moderate alcohol drinking can raise HDL, but heavy drinking can increase total cholesterol, LDL, and triglycerides. This raises the chance of developing cardiovascular disease.

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, United States BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado ...

If you drink heavy amounts of alcohol for weeks, months, or years, you may have mental and physical symptoms when you stop or cut back. This is called alcohol withdrawal. About half of all people ...

Choosing not to drink alcohol can sometimes lead to awkward social situations or unwanted pressure. But there are plenty of ways to decline a drink, allowing you to stick to your personal ...

A lot of this has to do with how our body processes alcohol, breaking it down into potentially cancer-causing substances along the way. Everyone is a little different when it comes to how alcohol ...

While alcohol consumption remains a public health concern, a nationwide prohibition is unlikely to happen again. At 12:01 a.m., Jan. 17, 1920, America was cut off. Saloons closed their doors.

Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, ...