Remember when a glass of wine a day was good for you? Here's why that changed.

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A recent study proclaiming that there is “no safe amount of alcohol” made a lot of headlines for, well, telling people that there’s no safe amount of alcohol. Many experts pointed out that the increased mortality risk associated with light drinking was tiny—so tiny as to be negligible—and they’re correct. We shouldn’t be freaking out about a miniscule elevation in likelihood of death.

But the hullabaloo raised another point: when did moderate drinking stop being good for us?

It wasn’t long ago that the court of public opinion held that a glass of cabernet with dinner wasn’t just okay for you, it was actively good for you. Yet it seems like opinion is shifting. Suddenly moderate drinking is unhealthy. What happened? Click the link to read the story.