Alcohol is ubiquitous in many western countries, and most people who consume alcohol don’t have a “drinking problem” as we usually think of it – they drink socially and it has very little to no negative impact on their daily life. They have something to celebrate? Champagne. Work’s finished for the day? Beers at the pub, or wine at the bar down the street. A hard day of yard work in summer? A cold beer hits the spot. Out to dinner with friends? A social glass (or two) of wine.
但是，仅仅因为您没有饮酒问题，这并不意味着您的饮酒就不会导致您的问题。研究越来越多地表明even drinking alcohol at very low levels can have adverse effects on your health，最近的研究表明根本没有酒精可能是最安全的政策。
当人们选择喝酒时……他们以受其影响和加强的方式的方式这样做
因此，即使没有“饮酒问题”的人，仍然有与饮酒有关的健康问题的风险。我们对酒精对这些人的意义以及如何使他们更容易喝少喝酒的意义很感兴趣，因此我们对文献进行了系统的审查。
毫不奇怪，事实证明，对人们没有饮酒问题的研究有限。不过，我们确实发现了一些非常有趣的事情。When people are choosing to drink, they do so to relax (which most of us would probably already suspect), but also that when they choose what and how to drink, they’re doing so in ways that are influenced by, and reinforce, their identities (such as workers and parents) and their expressions of gender.
我们的研究没有告诉我们的东西也很有趣。当他们谈论他们如何喝酒或围绕饮酒做出决定时，健康对这一小组并不重要。对他们而言，他们正在喝“正确”的方式对他们来说更为重要 - 他们的饮酒符合对性别和身份的社会可接受的叙事。
How could we reduce drinking in this group?
目前，旨在干预中年社会饮酒者的竞选活动的方式很少。大多数酒精运动针对的是饮酒者和年轻的暴饮暴食者，他们可能会在饮酒中危害自己和他人立即遇到危险。
This is one of the reasons we did this research: if we是为了定位这些饮酒者，什么样的事情可以说明他们的经历？我们现在知道，不可接受的饮酒行为是可能影响该群体的事情之一。
我们通常会想到年轻的暴饮暴食者，当我们想到不可接受的行为，例如公共醉酒，扔在街上，打架并在交通面前走出去。但是，这些并不是我们小组关注的行为，因此针对年轻人的运动类型不太可能影响中年社会饮酒者，因为他们的行为截然不同。
在这个小组中可能起作用的事情提醒您，如果您喝酒，您就不能总是履行作为父母的义务。如果您从前一天晚上有点肮脏，很难提早起床并在周日早上开车去足球。或者，也许，在每个社交场合喝酒都为您的孩子们树立了一个榜样，一直喝酒是正常的。
There are some things that might work that are problematic though. For example, telling women to drink less because it’s a bad look, while a possibly effective way to tap into the gendered constructs around drinking, is a problem because it reinforces the idea of social inequality between the sexes.
最终，我们需要对该小组进行更多研究，以及饮酒如何适应他们的生活。如果我们不知道它们，我们将无法有效地收到他们的重要信息以改善其健康。
Until recently, there was a reported J curve when alcohol consumption was discussed. Those with moderate consumption had increased longevity when compared to non-drinkers and heavy drinkers. The need for intervention may be overly stated, at this tme, as there is a variety of reasons to not consume alcohol, from religious, family history, addiction, etc.