Oh and putting an alcoholic on a low carb diet might just help their life in a nutritional sense. They will be a more healthy alcoholic. On the other hand, alcoholics I've known aren't real interested in taking care of themselves, nutritionally or otherwise. And if they are, maybe they are simply more likely to try and break their addiction. In which case, going on the LC diet is once again simply a correlatoin and not cause-and-effect.