Protects against heart disease, reduces weight in women, protects kidneys in men...ethanol appears to be the new vitamin E.
Except that uncontrolled vitamin E consumption doesn't keep physicians busy treating cirrhosis, pancreatitis, ethanol withdrawal, depression, malnutrition, trauma, and problems associated with severe socioeconomic decline.
Not to be a wet towel or anything. Cheers.
So, you'll have a double, then. ;)
The problems come when people drink too much alcohol...just like when one:
- eats too much, they get fat and die from cardiovascular disease;
- get too much sun and die from skin cancer;
- sleep too much and have muscular atrophy
Too much of anything is not good.
One should be able to hold one's vitamin E. An old manual composed by personal confessor of Ivan the Terrible specifically warned that those who could not hold the vitamin were liable to collapsing in a stupor, soiling themselves and their clothing, having all their valuables (and even unsoiled clothing) stolen from them and on top of it all they were likely to become laughingstocks.