the real problem is for people to remember what moderate means. for women, it s up to one glass of wine, one 12-ounce can of beer or one shot of hard alcohol. and in many it s twice that amount. i did not know the dose of alcohol is different in men and women. women metabolize alcohol slower. what i was surprised about was that hard alcohol angle of things. i was under the assumption that hard alcohol does damage to your liver and it s harder for the body to process. too much hard alcohol does do that like too much wine or too much beer. alcohol in general has been associated with increasing levels of the good or hdl cholesterol. the problem is when you drink more than moderate alcohol and heavy alcohol you get liver disease, heart disease, esophageal cancer and not to mention weight gain. you really do develop a beer belly. let s say you do go by these