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.
Next week’s new study will tell you to drink a bottle of wine per day.
If this stuff was true the French and Italians would be dead by 35.
So that’s what killed dear old dad... God love him.
At the vets home he drank a very large goblet of wine every day until a day or two before he died, about a month short of his 87 birthday. Then again, maybe it was the cigarettes he smoked when we took him out for for his daily drive to puff down as many as he could.
Hmm! So hard to tell. I know this though. After surviving infantry foot patrols as a 23 year old platoon sergeant in Korea in 1952-53 and witnessing the early demise of several of his fellow soldiers. He really seemed to enjoy most of the days he lived thereafter to their fullest, so maybe that glass of red wine was worth it.
“Overall, I do think people should no longer consider a glass of wine a day to somehow be healthy,”
Right. One glass is waaaayyyy to low a dose.
So science has been lying then or are lying now about a glass of wine was good for your health. Drinking poison is most likely not good?
LOL! of course
Wine is for washing down your rare steaks after having a snoot full of Beefeater martinis.
I’m doomed. That calls for another drink...
I’m wrapping up a “study” that proves that each selfie you take knocks 38.4 hours off of your life. Amazing.
red whine once a day but I can’t stand the taste
Mix it with 7-up
If the whiskey don’t kill me, I’ll live ‘til I die.
My wife and I have been making homemade wine for several years and enjoy a glass now and again. She’s 79 and I’m 81...……… So far, so good. At least we will die happy when our names are called.
As if a physician will ever prescribe wine. Such utter rubbish.
For the past 50 years, the same article has been written over and over again with only the foods and outcome being varied.
Drinking coffee every day will reduce your lifespan
Drinking coffee every day will increase your lifespan
Substitute that butter for margarine
Butter is better for you than margarine
Egg yolks will raise your cholesterol - eat egg whites only
Eggs are nature's "superfood" - make sure you eat the yolk too!
And on and on and on.
Well, technically there is Hellenic wine, called retsina. I’ve had it - it is swill.
My maternal grandparents were from Romania and hired other Romanians and Hungarians to work on their farm. The drinking water in their home countries was bad so they usually drank a glass of wine for lunch and supper. Most lived to be in their late 80s and 90s. The result of most studies: More study needed.
The science is settled....SETTLED!, I tell you.
Italy has one of the highest life expectancy in the world.
Just cracked my morning’s eye-opener with a piece of cold pizza. Burp!
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