If you hardly drink any alcohol will it affect your health?
Drinking in moderation is associated with better health and
longer life than abstaining or abusing alcohol. For example, it
reduces the risk of heart disease and heart attack by an average of
40%. That's important because heart disease the single major cause
of death in Western societies.
If you drink too much, alcohol can be harmful. Also, the younger
you are, the more likely it is to have brain damage by abusing
drinking.