People who drink alcohol outlive those who abstain, study shows

Belfast Telegraph ^ | 11 December 2013

[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. …

[Vendome]

LOL

To true.

[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.

[Sans-Culotte]

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.

[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.

[CatherineofAragon]

LOL! You kill me

[CatherineofAragon]

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.

[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.

[riri]

Same here. I catch about a five minute buzz, feel pretty good and then have a ten hour headache.

[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'

[editor-surveyor]

My frequent drinking friends have all died of oral cancer.

Can’t be any connection.

[minnesota_bound]

You are already pickled.

[Olog-hai]

Funny how they didn’t say “longevity rate”.

[Olog-hai]

But not sour.

[socal_parrot]

We’re 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.