In research on how to help the hearing impaired and those with age related cataracts, I am impressed, actually alarmed, by the fact that using alcohol as a beverage is detrimental even in moderate usage over time.

Wine with dinner is such a common event in many people’s lives, and before dinner, and after dinner, that I fear many people will learn too late that their precious hearing and eye sight is impaired unnecessarily or sooner than would be the case otherwise.