Recent studies suggest drinking is riskier than once believed. What do we know now that we didn’t know then—and is it time to stop sipping for good?
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This article is part of Dry January, Straight Up, your no-BS guide to cutting out alcohol for 31 days—or longer. SELF will be publishing new articles for this series throughout January. Read more here.
If you’re like a lot of folks, you might be kicking off the new year with everyone’s favorite no-booze month—Dry January. And even if you aren’t, might we suggest it could be a good time to reassess your drinking habits in general? After all, while you likely know how alcohol makes you feel—wonderful while you are consuming it (at least at first…), followed by a chaser of hangovers, headaches, and grogginess galore—over the years, alcohol’s “health halo”—“it’s healthy in small doses!”—has been dimming.
