There’s been a lot of alcohol in the news recently. Several new studies have reported some additional risks of alcohol itself and in the behaviors (like working long hours) that make us more likely to consume the stuff. But perhaps most surprising is a new review in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, in which the author suggests that doctors tell lifelong abstainers to start downing a drink with dinner every night, so robust are alcohol’s health benefits. Emanuel Rubin writes that although it should be an individualized recommendation by one’s doctor, “the overwhelming evidence suggests that physicians should counsel lifelong nondrinkers at about 40 to 50 years of age to relax and take a drink a day, preferably with dinner.”