Parties, cheering for our favorite sports team, or simply enjoying a break from work are occasions where we drink, sometimes in excess.

Many a beer drinker has heard about the health benefits of red wine over the past few years. In fact, there have been so many studies on the supposed elixir of life that there’s a good chance some beer drinkers, looking to confer the same benefits, have converted into wine connoisseurs. But convert not my fellow beer drinker, for beer also confers some health benefits, according to a new study, which found a compound within can ward off dementia and other cognitive decline.

Red wine may do more than just pair well with your favorite pasta dish, it could improve you memory.

Let’s face it, it’s hard seeing the benefits of a healthy diet and exercise when we’re always going out for some drinks with friends.

Los Angeles is trying to become the first city in the United States to place a legal drinking age on energy drinks, following a string of studies questioning certain health side effects involved with these beverages. Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks also hopes to educate adults about the dangers of consuming these highly caffeinated beverages that have been blamed for hypertension and even strokes.

TheTwitter backlash was immediate after couple Bex Long and John Dixon did the unimaginable on UK television show ITV This Morning: they drank their own urine. Yes, you read that correctly. The couple believes that drinking their own urine has a myriad of health benefits, none of which have been scientifically proven. And they decided to prove what they say is true by downing a champagne flute of their own pee live on the air.

You just woke up after a night of heavy drinking, your head is pounding, and even if you tried, you just can’t move.

Like a good whiskey, aging improves a drinker with time, as getting older may prevent the physical and existential pain of the hangover.