Drink more. You’ll live longer?

Health and temperance have always gone together. But our current culture of excess, it turns out that heavy drinkers apparently live longer than those who abstain from alcohol.

Time reports that a new study in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research followed 1,824 people between the ages of 55 and 65 for 20 years. In those two decades, 69 percent of those who didn’t drink died as compared to 60 percent of heavy drinkers.