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.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
should be proud of your efforts...as you can guess, I am as aware of the effects of excessive alcohol consumption on a family and life as you are. Like anything with bad potential, alcohol is fine until it becomes a partner in your life and manifests that bad potential.
I thank GOD for people like you who do things to help men like my Dad.””
Hear, hear, the money to support their family, the misery, the wasted lives and years affects not only the druggies but their families too. My wife’s father was an alcoholic too. He didn’t just destroy himself, but he brought so much misery to his family too. Stay strong Dusty and morel.
“Heck, Winston Churchill drank vast quantities of alcohol all day, every day and lived to about 90.”
According to the article Winston should have lived to be 150 years old had he not drank.
I’m totally with you. When I lived in the Seattle area it was all about biking. Commuting, tours, heck, just fun rides through traffic. There is nothing like getting off work in downtown Seattle at 3:30 on a beautiful summer day and merging into the traffic on your bicycle. It’s like being a kid again.
But then I got divorced, remarried and, eventually moved to a small “hobby farm” in south central KY. Now it’s primarily two things: maintaining the property and sex. I’m building bike trails in the 27 acres of woods and meadows, mowing the five acre yard on the zero turn, keeping the 1/4 mile driveway in good repair, building a chicken coop. etc.
And it is all completely secluded and private, so, again, there’s the sex. :-D
Yeah, Germany: the local KBG guy and I got along ... with the beer ... great fun. He’s say Mir (meaning conquer the world), and I’d say Mir (meaning peace). What a hoot ... have to have another.
30 years commercial fishing sobered me up some.
LOL...if he had lived to 150, there are some people who would never have borne up to having HIM as a burr under their saddle for THAT long!
What a man.
LOL, THAT would rot your liver long before that extra 30 minutes ever kicks in!
Well as Mark Twain said (no, not him, the other Mark Twain) “My habits protect me but they’re liable to assassinate you”
You mean I coulda lived to 183?
I loved Onslow. I think he was the best character in that TV series.
What opinion? Alcohol is a poison, that is a fact. Of course it is not popular groupthink so it must be shot down with cheap comments like yours.
You Christians sit down and shut up and mind your place.
And in other news: You DON’T have to drink 8 glasses of water a day! 5 scientists debunk the myth and warn it can be dangerous. (Daily Mail).
Someone may have already posted something similar but I don’t have time to read the 90 plus posts because I have a breakfast martini waiting for me ;-). it comes down to genetics. Some people can drink like a fish and live to 100 (like my great grandmother, who lived to 105) and others will die at 55 from it. It’s like the guys who spend all their life working out and running and stuff and drop dead of a heart attack while jogging. It’s gonna happen when it happens, and I would rather enjoy a nice medium rare steak with a bottle of merlot (preceded by a couple of appetite enhancing martinis or manhattans) than worry about every little thing I ingest. Life is for living. Savor every moment.
Jesus first miracle was to create poison. Who knew?
At least the Brits paid for this worthless pos posing as a medical study.
And paying any attention to The Guardian will make you WANT to die 30 minutes earlier.
People who shouldn’t drink alcohol need to leave it alone. The rest of us need to be left in peace.
Love how you atheists always tell Christians how to live.
Yes, for all their talk about freedom/civil rights the Libs want to ban everything.
Since it takes a half hour to sip a glass of wine, it’s likely a break-even action. I think I’ll trust my common sense rather than Libs.
Just as a side note, how much does being a homosexual shorten your lifespan? I haven’t heard them address that!
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