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People who drink alcohol outlive those who abstain, study shows
Belfast Telegraph ^
| 11 December 2013
Posted on 12/10/2013 11:31:11 PM PST by Olog-hai
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.
Instead, moderate drinking, defined as one to three drinks per day, was associated with the lowest mortality rate.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: abstinence; alcohol; longevity; mortalityrate
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To: Madame Dufarge
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posted on
12/11/2013 1:43:18 AM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Olog-hai
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.
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posted on
12/11/2013 4:34:18 AM PST
by
varon
(Para bellum)
To: 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....................Supposedly, the alcohol drunk by the Titanic's chief baker aided him in his survival as he claimed he did not feel the cold in the icy waters.
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posted on
12/11/2013 4:50:22 AM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
To: Olog-hai
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.
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posted on
12/11/2013 5:41:24 AM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
To: Doogle
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:32:46 AM PST
by
CatherineofAragon
((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
To: zeestephen
I’m kind of like that. I like an occasional glass of wine, but if I try a second, halfway through my throat starts to close up. And it absolutely refuses to let beer through, lol.
Oh, well....I’ll get my antioxidants from coffee.
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:34:40 AM PST
by
CatherineofAragon
((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
To: Olog-hai
Great news ... I should live to a ripe old age based on this study. ;)
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:39:25 AM PST
by
BluH2o
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
12/11/2013 8:02:31 AM PST
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Olog-hai
Churchill lived to be 90.
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posted on
12/11/2013 8:06:59 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: zeestephen
Same here. I catch about a five minute buzz, feel pretty good and then have a ten hour headache.
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posted on
12/11/2013 8:08:00 AM PST
by
riri
(Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
To: Olog-hai
. . appeared to have a higher mortality rate . . The mortality rate is 100% for everyone. Perhaps they have an earlier mortality rate.
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posted on
12/11/2013 9:28:38 AM PST
by
aimhigh
To: Olog-hai
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'
To: zeestephen
My frequent drinking friends have all died of oral cancer.
Can’t be any connection.
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posted on
12/11/2013 9:50:29 AM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Olog-hai
To: aimhigh
Funny how they didn’t say “longevity rate”.
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posted on
12/11/2013 1:15:34 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: minnesota_bound
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posted on
12/11/2013 1:16:44 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Vendome
Were Irish and Scottish so maybe there is a genetic immunity?My Spiritual Adviser (AA sponsor who is also Irish) says if it weren't for the Irish and house painters, you could hold AA meetings in a phone booth.
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posted on
12/11/2013 1:23:44 PM PST
by
socal_parrot
(I hate to say I told you so, but...)
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