Posted on 04/13/2018 4:37:45 AM PDT by vannrox
Drinking will shorten your life, according to a study that suggests every glass of wine or pint of beer over the daily recommended limit will cut half an hour from the expected lifespan of a 40-year-old.
Those who think a glass of red wine every evening will help keep the heart healthy will be dismayed. The paper, published in the Lancet medical journal, says five standard 175ml glasses of wine or five pints a week is the upper safe limit – about 100g of alcohol, or 12.5 units in total. More than that raises the risk of stroke, fatal aneurysm (a ruptured artery in the chest), heart failure and death.
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I have been dead for several years.
They can’t stand the idea that somewhere, someone is enjoying their life.
You mean putting poison in your body is not healthy?
theGuardian is anti-alcohol, pro-marijuana, pro-Starbucks.
I must have died some decades back ... am in zombie mode or something now?
And you never drink wine I bet you die sooner as well.
Thing is, there are a LOT of people out there who hang on every word in these kinds of things.
They are like a yo-yo on a string.
Personally, I discount them 100% and don’t even give them a second thought.
I should have died a long, long, long time ago. I’m on my second 500ml Canned Sunkry highball on my walk up to friend’s place for chess night. I’ll have a few more tonight too. Same as every day.
OK, I’ll have a beer.
Which is why I drink beer. It’s actually good for you.
I personally wouldn’t characterize alcohol that way.
Heck, Winston Churchill drank vast quantities of alcohol all day, every day and lived to about 90.
I have always viewed alcohol as no more poisonous than money.
It all depends on how you use it or how you change your life because of it that might make it evil.
“”Thing is, there are a LOT of people out there who hang on every word in these kinds of things.””
Might be because there’s allot of people dying daily due to the short and long term effects of alcohol. Throw in that many who have a problem with alcohol rarely admit it in fact deny it. Few people tell their doctors the truth about their alcohol consumption. This is so bad that the running joke is double what ever it is they admit to.
No, your life just feels longer without that glass of wine.
Drinking wine is NOT putting poison in your body!!!
Another useless medical study...
I find the ones I like and stick with them.
Drinking Alcohol Has Better Effects Than Exercise To Live Long Life, Study Reveals
I think a lot of this discussion ought to center on your DNA. If you go look at Italians, in their 80s and 90s....they all drink two or three glasses of wine per day. You see the same with Japanese who make into their 90s...alcohol is part of their ‘secret’.
There are probably people with DNA who should not consume more than one beer/wine per week.
Thank goodness I drink Jim Beam and Beer and not wine.
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