David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

numbers are for men, not women.)
That’s the upslope: the more, the
merrier. Then there’s the stretch from,
say, seven to fourteen glasses of wine a
week. You’re not helping yourself by
drinking more in that range. But you’re
not particularly hurting yourself either.
That’s the middle part of the curve.
Finally, there’s the right side of the
curve: the downslope. That’s when you
get past fourteen glasses of wine a week
and drinking more starts to leave you
with a shorter life. Alcohol is not
inherently good or bad or neutral. It
starts out good, becomes neutral, and
ends up bad.
5 The clear exception: children with
serious behavioral or learning