It is generally believed that moderate alcohol consumption is good for the health of the body; this view comes from a study of the past three decades, which showed that individuals who drink moderately tend to be healthier and less likely to die prematurely than those who drink more alcohol per day or never drink alcohol. If this is true, then many people are very happy. But a recent study challenged the above point of view, researchers found that compared to relatively large amounts of alcohol or non-drinkers, moderate drinkers are indeed very healthy, but also richer, when we control for the effects of affluence, the health benefits of alcohol apparently in women aged 50 and older will be greatly reduced, and in men of the same age moderate drinking on the health of the body The benefits are almost nonexistent. Health, wealth and alcohol intake Limited studies have shown a direct correlation between moderate alcohol consumption and better health performance among older adults in the 55 to 65 age group, but these studies have not taken into account a major factor influencing organism health and alcohol use, which is wealth (affluence), and to delve deeper into the issue, researchers have explored in depth whether it is moderate alcohol consumption that makes older adults become healthier, or whether it is the wealth that older adults have that allows them to afford a healthy lifestyle. The researchers studied 2,908 New Zealanders with an average age of 65 years in the Health, Work and Retirement Research Program at Massey University, a major longitudinal aging study conducted in New Zealand over a 10-year period that included a representative sample of people aged 50 years and older. sample to be studied. The researchers divided individuals into different study groups based on their average level of drinking (from non-drinkers to those who drank more than three times a day) and were also keen to ensure that they were able to distinguish between individuals who had stopped drinking due to poorer health and those who never drank. The researchers first compared the health of individuals in different study groups and confirmed the trend of previous studies that moderate drinkers tend to be healthier than heavy drinkers or non-drinkers, and the analysis relied on participants’ assessment of their own physical health and their own physical activity limitations. The researchers noted that moderate drinking individuals tended to be wealthier than heavy or non-drinkers, and when wealth was removed, moderate drinking men may not be associated with better health, while in women, moderate drinking was still directly associated with better health for the individual bear aunt, but the effect is somewhat problematic considering that only 4% of women would have performed this way. The findings are not very supportive of the health-protective benefits of moderate drinking; rather, the researchers argue that the health of older individuals and their level of drinking tend to reflect primarily their wealth and economic status; perhaps the relationship between alcohol intake and health among older adults reflects who can drink but not how much they have drunk. Revisiting moderate alcohol intake Thousands of studies spanning several decades have concluded that alcohol intake is directly related to more than 200 health conditions and is the leading cause of death in 6 percent of the world’s population; scientists are still searching for a plausible mechanism to explain why alcohol has a health-protective effect on the body (despite being a carcinogenic agent and a key predictor of disease and early death). key predictors of disease and early death). Scientists today are increasingly concerned about the validity of previous statements about the health benefits of moderate drinking, and many review articles support the relationship between alcohol consumption and health; but at the same time, many studies do not account for differences in the knowledge of predictive health factors between moderate drinkers and other study groups; moderate drinkers tend to be wealthier, and have relatively good levels of education, physical activity, and diet, when researchers After controlling for a variety of surprises, there is little evidence that moderate drinking leads to certain health benefits compared to lifelong non-drinking or occasional drinking. Seniors should be cautious! Alcohol intake can often cause serious problems, and any claims of health benefits must be considered with caution; older adults are often at increased risk for health problems due to alcohol consumption compared to younger adults, who have a relatively lower ability to metabolize alcohol and are more likely to develop a number of diseases, while drinking alcohol can also exacerbate Alcohol consumption can also exacerbate illnesses in older adults. However, recent studies have shown that baby boomers tend to consume large amounts of alcohol on a regular basis compared to other generations, and many older adults still believe that moderate drinking is beneficial, and some even use active moderate drinking as a drug therapy to treat illness. Older drinkers tend to be at increased risk for disease due to their alcohol intake, and they are also a group of people that researchers have had a very difficult time studying and understanding. If alcohol consumption is not beneficial to the health of older adults, then perhaps alcohol intake increases their health risk, so how much alcohol is too much for older adults to drink? Many researchers internationally are currently studying this issue.