Is drinking alcohol healthy?

Alcohol is healthy because it can reduce the risk of type II diabetes.

Question: Is drinking alcohol healthy?
Position1 of 2›: Yes, drinking alcohol is healthy.
Argument‹2 of 3›: Alcohol is healthy because it can reduce the risk of type II diabetes.

Alcohol can have positive effects on insulin regulation and protect from type II diabetes.

The argument

Type II diabetes is a disease in which the body has difficulty regulating its glucose (sugar) levels. Alcohol has been found to increase adiponectin levels, which is a hormone that improves insulin sensitivity. Insulin is what your body uses to regulate glucose levels, so moderate alcohol consumption can help decrease the chances of type II diabetes.

Premises

[P1]Type II diabetes involves difficulty regulating glucose, which the body manages through insulin. [P2] Alcohol raises adiponectin, a hormone that improves insulin sensitivity, so moderate consumption can lower the chance of developing type II diabetes. [C] Therefore, because it can reduce the risk of type II diabetes, drinking alcohol is healthy.

Counter-arguments

-This has only been observed from correlational studies, not proven in experiments. -The health drawbacks of alcohol outweigh the lowered chance for type II diabetes.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] Nothing here is disputed and nothing here is about alcohol: the premise describes the disease and sets up the mechanism without contributing anything to the conclusion. [Rejecting P2] A proposed mechanism is not an outcome, and the counter is right that the evidence is correlational — studies comparing moderate drinkers with non-drinkers place former drinkers and people abstaining for health reasons in the comparison group, which biases the result in the direction the premise wants. Even granting the association, an effect on one condition at one level of intake does not make drinking healthy; the conclusion quietly drops the word "moderate" and everything else alcohol affects.