Posted on 11/04/2018 4:44:17 AM PST by vannrox
According to the study of more than 400,000 American adults, light drinkers — regardless of age — are 20 percent more likely to suffer a premature death.
“It used to seem like having one or two drinks per day was no big deal, and there even have been some studies suggesting it can improve health,” notes first author Dr. Sarah M. Hartz, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the university, in a release. “But now we know that even the lightest daily drinkers have an increased mortality risk.”
Hartz says that while earlier research has claimed moderate drinking can reduce one’s risk of heart disease, the benefit is overshadowed by the other damaging effects of alcohol. She points to the elevated risk of developing cancer from daily drinking, which of course, can shorten a person’s lifespan.
“With regard to cancer risk, any drinking at all was detrimental,” she cautions.
Hartz and her team analyzed data from a study of 340,668 people ages 18-85 who took part in a federal study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and another 93,653 adults between ages 40 and 60 who were outpatients at Veterans Administration facilities. The researchers calculated that those who consumed one to two drinks at least four times a week were 20 percent more likely to fall victim to an early death than people who consumed a drink or two three times a week or less. That might not sound like a big concern, but it’s particularly dangerous for those dealing with other health issues.
“A 20 percent increase in risk of death is a much bigger deal in older people who already are at higher risk,” says Hartz. “Relatively few people die in their 20s, so a 20 percent increase in mortality is small but still significant. As people age, their risk of death from any cause also increases, so a 20 percent risk increase at age 75 translates into many more deaths than it does at age 25.”
Simply put, unless your physician tells you otherwise, Hartz says it’s unwise for anyone to justify a trip to the wine store with health benefits.
“Overall, I do think people should no longer consider a glass of wine a day to somehow be healthy,” she concludes.
The full study is published online Oct. 3 in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
So will eggs and peanut butter and coffee and sugar and ....
You’ll definitely die sooner if you drink a bottle of wine and while driving.
These “research findings” are so stupid. The last time one of these things came out (can’t remember when that was) the finding was that a glass of wine every day added time to your life.
I know its early but a glass of Port sounds pretty good with cereal today...
every one of these stories reminds me of the scene from Sleeper..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iG6Hrh4v08
As usual, some people confuse correlation with causation.
In a few months, we will be reading about a “study” that tells us to drink red wine with dinner and we’ll live 10 years longer. Or that coffee is good for us, and that we should drink 5 cups a day. Or that coffee kills us, and that we should not drink any.
I am not as think as you drunk I am.
The reason there is ouzo is because they can’t make wine or beer
Ouzo is great!
Much better than its sweeter, neighboring cousins.
Perhaps you’re thinking of retsina?
“I can’t drink wine at all; the least amount gives me a real bad headache.”
could be the sulfites ... pretty much all bottled wine has sulfites added as a preservative ...
Coffee = BAD,
Coffee = GOOD.
Salt = BAD,
Salt = GOOD.
Butter = BAD,
Margarine = GOOD,
Margarine = BAD,
Butter = GOOD.
Wine = GOOD,
Wine = BAD.
Can’t those a-holes get things right, for once, without putting out unproved negative announcements, based on a few years’ study?
That said, I quit all alcohol on Jan 9, 2010. I miss the well-aged Cabernet, Lafite and Shiraz VINOs that I used to collect for investments and drinking enjoyment.
Who cares? Life sucks and it would suck worse without wine. If I get to croak before I wet myself all the time, that’s all the better.
Entire research team shown here...
But you will also be on track to run for the Senate as a democrat in Texas.
Fun Police.
Fun Police.
I was thinking the opposite. For all we know, she might be a lush, covering her tracks
Damn ... if this study has any merit I should have been dead years ago.
I drink black coffee...
But I am an angry engineer. Not a psychopath.
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