[Elle Bee]

would you really expect anything else from an Irish newspaper?

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[Doogle]

"...and da ...and da..*hiccup*...an da da da ..*hiccup* dog hooo....an da dog who rode you err"

[zeestephen]

The positive health impact of moderate, and even heavy, drinking has been known for many decades.

I am skeptical about one thing, though.

I’m a teetotaler because I don’t like the taste of alcohol, I have to repress a gag reflex when I swallow it, and I feel nauseous when it arrives in my stomach.

In my opinion, when someone has that many negative reactions to alcohol, my body is clearly saying, “Don’t Drink It, Stupid!”

[Sivad]

So, who here is not too proud to pick the low hanging fruit?

[Lmo56]

Foster Brooks had it right ...

[iowamark]

Many alcoholics consider themselves “moderate” drinkers. When they hear 1-3 drinks, they think of 8 ounces of liquor as a drink.

[Bullish]

I’ll drink to that.

[Vendome]

I think that may be true.

My grandfather was an alcoholic and died at the young age of 86 years.

My real father is 70 and a champion alcoholic. For breakfast he has Kahlua, vodka and coffee. He packs his thermos with coffee and bourbon or vodka.

He ends his evening with a few more drinks on the rocks.

Don’t know how he does it. I sure as heck don’t have the ability to operate like that.

We’re Irish and Scottish so maybe there is a genetic immunity?

Blech!

[GreenHornet]

Research published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research found those who did not consume any alcohol appeared to have a higher mortality rate, regardless of whether they were former heavy drinkers or not, than those who drank heavily.

I thought both groups had the same mortality rate: 100%.

[varon]

Heavy inebriation prevents serious injury................really. How many time have you seen a a car accident where the car is totaled yet the shit-faced drunk driver walks away yet a cold sober driver gets a little rear bumper tap and winds up in a hospital, in a full body cast with legs suspended in the air....................

................or a drunk falling on ice or whatever, will usually manage to get up and with an "I ate the canary smile" amble off to his stash of Thunderbird while a tea totaller after taking a spill on a slippery surface will wind up on the operating room table as surgeons try to reassemble their skeletal system like a jigsaw puzzle after being spilled on the floor.

[Arrowhead1952]

Instead, “moderate” drinking, defined as one to three drinks per day, was associated with the lowest mortality rate. …

Well, 0 bummer extended my life by several years. I've had more scotch the past five years than I drank before he was elected in 2008.

[BluH2o]

Great news ... I should live to a ripe old age based on this study. ;)

[Georgia Girl 2]

Slainte (slancha) :-)

[dfwgator]

Churchill lived to be 90.

[aimhigh]

. . appeared to have a higher mortality rate . .

The mortality rate is 100% for everyone. Perhaps they have an earlier mortality rate.

[Billthedrill]

Now that we're on 0bamacare we're all paying for people with poor health habits, and I'm protesting. So I'm laying down this ultimatum:

If You Don't Start Drinkin'

[minnesota_bound]

You are already pickled.