One thing is certain: those who drink and those who don’t will both eventually end up in the ground.
The results are interesting in that wine is generally higher alcohol content than beer; so maybe beer drinkers drink more beer in one setting while wine drinkers drink one glass mostly???
Every night around 5PM for almost 50 years I’ve had one G&T. In all those years, I’ve not had malaria once!
I was certain Bourbon was gonna be the safe one.
The problem with these studies is they do not account for other factors.
Basically, it says that drinking a glass of wine is good for you. While drinking straight alcohol, beer or cider is not.
Does it also account for the BMI of the beer or cider or spirits drinkers?
Maybe people who drink only small amounts of wine are also more health conscience in general. They get more exercise. They eat better food. They watch what they eat.
All excessive alcohol consumption is generally bad for you.
I personally also find it leads to eating bad food or over eating. Meaning, if you are hung over you tend to eat crap food to make your stomach feel better.
Typically the ONLY cure is to have another drink. So, it becomes a spiral trap/addiction.
...”one drink”...
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Who does that?
Night Train Express!
My Dad used to say “Beware of the guy who doesn’t drink, smoke or swear. He hiding some really terrible vice”. LOL.
It’s the bioflavonoids. Cacao can do much of the same thing for your heart health. Probably other foods as well that I’m not aware of.
“Not all types of alcohol are created equal — and a new study suggests that wine may carry lower health risks than beer or hard liquor.” I’ve got it all covered, pass the Tito’s, it’s past noon.
I try to split the difference between wine and spirits by drinking a bit of brandy :)
A doctor taught my Bible Study. He said he never had alcoholic patient who just drank red wine. Almost all were liquor drinkers.
I’d suggest that wine drinkers tend to have healthier diets and lifestyles, on average, than beer and hard liquor drinkers.
Doctor: “I want you to stop drinking.”
Patient: “Will I live to be 100?”
Doctor: “No, but it will seem like it..”
The key beneficial ingredients of the Mediterranean Diet are red wine and olive oil. The rest of the ingredients are just along for the ride.
These types of studies are always suspect. There are too many factors to consider. For example, perhaps there is a higher correlation with alcohol and high blood pressure and/or cardiovascular disease because the people that drink the most tend to be more often people with “issues”. A person that had a rough, abusive childhood would be a higher stress person anyway and may be self-medicating with alcohol, but such a person would also be at higher risk for cardiovascular disease as a teetotaler as compared to other teetotalers who don’t have such a background. Rarely do I see any such studies control for these factors, if it is at all possible to control for them all.
Huh. The American College of Cardiology’s a bunch of winos. Prove me wrong.
Not according to the article:
People with high alcohol intake were 24% more likely to die from any cause.
The corollary being there was a chance of NOT dying from any cause.
(Yeah I know, the study probably tied the statistics to a particular time frame, but the crap article doesn't say that. We could not die forever.)
A good comment I saw once:
People keep telling me I will live longer if I don’t drink, and I always say, “Doing what?”.
I seem to remember that the health benefit is from red wine, and something in the grape skins. They should do a study comparing wine drinkers with those who drink grape juice.