India, May 25 -- Is there an alcohol that is less risky than others? When you are hanging out with friends or colleagues and get offered a drink, would drinking wine be a better option than any other liquor or beer? According to experts, alcohol is bad news, no matter what you drink. You can lessen the harm and adapt strategies while drinking to minimise the bad effects, but there will still be bad effects of drinking.

Several health experts told the New York Times that drinking any type of alcohol, in any amount, is bad for health. Timothy Stockwell, an alcohol researcher at the University of Victoria in Canada, told the publication, "When you have a drink, your body turns the ethanol that's present in the alcoholic beverage into a real...