Next up, “science” determines that smoking is actually good for you.
My dad drank some red wine most every day from the age of 5. (Born in Italy). He only lived to be 92, probably due to all that drinking.
To the Science Preachers,
Slainte! Now feck off, eejits.
Are their real world applications of this study ?
Pretty sure anyone drinking these days will not be doing it in moderation..
Yeah, I study retrospective treatment patterns for a living, and I can tell you that self-reported alcohol use is highly unreliable. If you tell your doctor you drink several times a week they will code you as alcohol dependent, so many people just deny drinking at all.
My favorite response was from a patient, when asked how much he drank, he simply said “not as much as I’d like to.”
8 drinks a WEEK? I don’t drink that much in a month. I’ve just never really been a drinker. But I don’t abstain, either. An occasional glass or two of wine, especially with a holday dinner. A celebratory single-malt scotch once in a great while. I’ve even been known to drink a beer every couple of years.
They found nothing of the kind. Not even close. They found a CORRELATION that MIGHT mean what they claim, but they most certainly did NOT find that 'wine was minimally protective from ischemic heart disease'. That is a lie.
Idiotic garbage like this is why we have so many morons to deal with these days.
There is more to living a full life besides being ‘safe’.
Or, as Oscar Wilde said: “Everything in moderation, including
moderation!”
I suppose I’ll just have to pour that new 1.5 liter bottle of Bushmills Irish down the drain. Same for 1.5 liter bottles of Beefeaters Gin Lambs Navy Rum.
Not.
I don’t even drink coffee, much less alcoholic beverages. Couldn’t if I wanted to. Always driving. It’s a long way to anywhere in this state.
It’s “science”, don’tcha know.
When it comes to drinking, its all or f all. And I am speaking from experience.
No one is going to decide to drink or not drink based on these sorts of articles. About 11 years ago I went from 1 to 2 beers a night to zero zilch nada and never looked back. But if you like a glass of wine or two then go for it.
My dad always had at *least* two drinks, and smoked right up until he died in my arms. He was 80, I was 20. He had three purple hearts from both world wars and never left the house unarmed.
“Don’t drink and drive; you might hit a bump and spill it”
-Dean Martin
I’m on vacation. Am working on my next book... I’m all alone in the middle of the North woods with plans to go no further than the kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom...
I have a tall rum and diet coke in a glass at my elbow.
I’ll live as long as I live and I will make no apologies for anything I do between now and the end.
Blah, blah, blah. After sifting through all the blather, the bottom line is moderate drinking is unhealthy...got to drink more heavily.😎
First it was like: good, then bad, then good, then, well, we dunno.
Personal anecdote: Three of my grandparents lived to their mid-80s, one to his mid nineties. The three who lived to their mid eighties were all moderate drinkers- beer or wine on occasion. The one who lived to his mid-90s would come home from work every night and pour himself a glass of whiskey and keep refilling it until he went to bed. When he retired he would go down to the VFW hall a little after lunch most days and start drinking there, then come home pour himself a glass and keep it full. He did this from the time he came home from Europe after WWII until he could no longer drive himself to the VFW. Then he started drinking after breakfast until bed time.
Who knows how long he could have lived if not for the drinking? Except what killed him is he wouldn’t eat after my aunt died.
I used to sell MIS surgical equipment which we provided for gross anatomy lab work for physicians. I was talking to the director and asked where they got the cadavers. He said most of them were from unclaimed homeless alcoholics who had died. He said the veins of these cadavers were pristine. There were no plaque build ups, etc. He attributed it to the excessive and constant drinking. Of course he said nothing about their livers.