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Drinking just one alcoholic beverage per day shortens your lifespan by this insane amount
NY Post ^ | 7/06/24 | Brooke Kato

Posted on 07/06/2024 4:16:34 PM PDT by Libloather

This is such a buzz kill.

As it turns out, consuming just one alcoholic beverage per day — whether it be a pint of beer, a glass of wine or a shot of your favorite spirit — can shorten your lifespan by approximately two-and-a-half months, one expert asserts

Dr. Tim Stockwell, of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, told Daily Mail that those who drink significantly more alcohol than that — about 35 beverages a week — could slash a staggering two years off their lifespan.

It’s a rude awakening for those who might like to unwind with a glass of pinot after a long day, or who frequent happy hours with friends or colleagues.

“Alcohol is our favorite recreational drug. We use it for pleasure and relaxation, and the last thing we want to hear is that it causes any harm,” he said. “It’s comforting to think that drinking is good for our health, but unfortunately, it’s based on poor science.”

Unfortunately, according to the doc, no amount of alcohol is safe for boozers — and his claims are backed up by science.

Recent research has shown that alcohol consumption could increase the risk of certain health conditions, such as cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, liver disease and more, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: alcohol; beverage; brookekato; cheers; drinking; etoh; lifespan; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost; oenology; zymurgy
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To: Libloather

Sounds worth it.


101 posted on 07/06/2024 6:36:56 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Libloather

How ridiculous and who cares?


102 posted on 07/06/2024 6:45:15 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

More likely that alcohol interferes with the deadly, intentional, side effects of the mRNA clot shots.


103 posted on 07/06/2024 6:46:19 PM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous w)
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To: Libloather

Seems like a good trade. At least from point of view today.


104 posted on 07/06/2024 6:48:42 PM PDT by Rio
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

LOL! Lips that don’t touch liquor won’t touch yours either. What a bunch of sour pusses.


105 posted on 07/06/2024 6:50:00 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (The soap box and ballot box have failed, it's really close to time for the bullet box.)
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To: DAC21
I have died, just don’t know it yet.

LOL! Just like Keith Richards, he's been dead since the 1980s.

106 posted on 07/06/2024 6:52:37 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (The soap box and ballot box have failed, it's really close to time for the bullet box.)
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To: big bad easter bunny

I think you guys are reading the numbers wrong.

If you had never taken a drink you would live 2.5 months longer for each drink you refused.

My math says that I would have lived 4,666 years in addition to the 95 years I have behind me now.

Must be the same “scientists” who worked up the EV and global warming numbers.


107 posted on 07/06/2024 6:52:45 PM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so bad that the government can not make worse)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I hear that from people who think it’s a sin to drink alcohol. The other thing they say is that it wasn’t wine like is sold today. That may be; possibly it’s like the sweet wine old Italians used to make at home.


108 posted on 07/06/2024 6:54:50 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)?)
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To: Libloather

Keyword: Can


109 posted on 07/06/2024 6:55:10 PM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: Libloather

That’s ridiculous. It’s not good for you but this claim is absurd.


110 posted on 07/06/2024 6:57:13 PM PDT by Baldwin77 ( NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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To: Libloather

Alcohol killed my grandfather. He was run over by a Guinness truck.


111 posted on 07/06/2024 7:01:24 PM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: Libloather

bullshit. Beer is a gift of God.


112 posted on 07/06/2024 7:01:52 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Flaming Conservative
I attend a church that teaches that no alcohol should be consumed.

So, they just ignore that Christ Himself turned water into wine at the Wedding at Cana.

113 posted on 07/06/2024 7:02:27 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: pepsi_junkie

Hitlery should have died before she was born then...


114 posted on 07/06/2024 7:04:02 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Codeflier

My beloved grandfather, who was “tee-totaller” was ordered by his doctors to have a drink every night to help with his arteries.

I guess the times have changed as far as medical attitudes are concerned, but since I doubt human physiology hasnt changed much, I would tend to look for other explanations, including one that goes something like this...

Doctors just make stuff up and really don’t look for root causes, not enough time, etc. How could these researchers really do effective controlled, double blind studies over long periods? Color me unconvinced.


115 posted on 07/06/2024 7:06:01 PM PDT by jacquej (“You cannot have a conservative government with a liberal culture." (Mark Steyn))
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To: Libloather

Bkmk


116 posted on 07/06/2024 7:08:00 PM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themrrselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Libloather

Two years are the shitty ones anyway, DRINK UP.


117 posted on 07/06/2024 7:11:58 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: Libloather
"Drinking just one alcoholic beverage per day..."

Just One? Whew.., I'm well above that! Cheers, FRiends!

118 posted on 07/06/2024 7:12:13 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Libloather

Two years are the shitty ones anyway, DRINK UP.


119 posted on 07/06/2024 7:12:24 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: T.B. Yoits

No, they say the water wasn’t fit or abundant, and that it wasn’t as potent as today’s wine.


120 posted on 07/06/2024 7:16:36 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)?)
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