On Oct 18, 8:54 am, "Barb" wrote:
Without going into a long argument about what is, and
what isn't, sensible drinking - we're all adults here, hopefully - how is it
that people in Europe have been drinking wine regularly for years
(centuries, even!) in moderate quantities, and haven't had the promised
"epidemic" of liver disease and all the other nasties?

Centuries? Millennia!! Civilization started because people had to
stay in one place and farm in order to grow crops to make beer, wine,
and mead. Alcohol was the only advantage farmers had over the older
hunter-gatherer societies, but it was enough to make our ancestors
switch.