Posted on 08/23/2018 8:04:46 PM PDT by Mariner
Even an occasional glass of wine or beer increases the risk of health problems and dying, according to a major study on drinking in 195 nations that attributes 2.8 million premature deaths worldwide each year to booze.
"There is no safe level of alcohol," said Max Griswold, a researcher at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, Washington and lead author for a consortium of more than 500 experts.
Despite recent research showing that light-to-moderate drinking reduces heart disease, the new study found that alcohol use is more likely than not to do harm.
"The protective effect of alcohol was offset by the risks," Griswold told AFP in summarising the results, published in medical journal The Lancet on Friday.
"Overall, the health risks associated with alcohol rose in line with the amount consumed each day."
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An average of two drinks per day, for example, translated into a 7.0 percent hike in disease and injury compared to those who opt for abstinence.
With five "units" of alcohol per day, the likelihood of serious consequences jumps by 37 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at afp.com ...
If you are the Religious sort. Jesus said “a little wine for the Stomach”.
Beat me to it
And one in the bush is worth two in the hand
Name some things you like. I am sure several ought to be prohibited for negative effects on you in some form.
Because totalitarian states micromanaging their citizens to that degree, and the filthy authoritarians who support such policies are far worse than any inebriating substance.
Thousands of years of human experience make that an incredibly easy question to answer.
Lotta men looked at that picture and said Thank God, get me another beer.
Are you Carrie Nation reincarnated?
Even Jesus himself liked wine, to the point where He was accused of being a wine-bibber (boozehound, for those in Rio Linda) by the Pharisees.
If you don’t want to drink, that’s fine with me. If you want to take my cold beer after work away, then we may have a issue.
It’s like that joke:
Conservative: Leave me alone.
Leftist: NO! I know better!
You failed, utterly.
Hillary ain’t giving up booze for those women.
As I read the article, the increased deaths are attributed to TB, auto accidents and self-harm (suicide). So, don’t drink and drive, stay out of the third world and don’t kill yourself. Problem solved.
Helps people... what? Get drunk?
Regards,
“Wymyns in the smoke and booze laced 60’s/70’s seemed to be slimmer, on average, than today.”
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You must be young-——you could go back 30 more years.
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Yup, muzzles will have alcohol outlawed.
When i was young drinking sometimes led to bad ideas, when i got older it led to good ones...some of which made me a whole lot of $
I know a lot of sucessful entrepreneurs and i cant think of one who is a teetotaler
I always suspected that even moderate alcohol was harmful.
Pickled liver is real.
Drink a lot, your body organs suffer damage than say water. Put a glass of alcohol on the table in front of you. Now try to remove the alcohol. It takes effort. The liver takes real effort to unadulterate a liquid that your body can use.
Always focus on abstinence and see how far you can get. If just at times, GIVE YOUR BODY A BREAK.
It is not popular talking like this, but as you sleep at night, your body thanks you.
At times, just take life's sadness, and boredom, and anxiety. Feel it. It gets better.
You’re making light of this...
YOU might NOT have that extra two weeks sitting in a nursing home spitting up your apple sauce...
Classic sign of a false, sensationalistic “study.” There is a safe level of every substance, including cyanide or VX nerve gas. There is also an unsafe level of even mundane substances, like water. This kind of gross overstatement is typical of an agenda-driven “study” designed to deceive.
I have no desire to prohibit anything, but drinking alcohol makes life the next day less easy or pleasant. Drinking daily is done by a lot of the planet, but maybe they wold be stronger and healthier if they didn’t. Many of them take in a ton of sugar, from drinking sweet drinks like wine. Men get estrogen dominant. That is not fun.
It definitely does bad things for me personally, but other people seem to be ok enjoying it. I don’t want to take away anyone’s joys in life but the idea of imbibing is always better than the real thing, for me.
Jesus drank. The Bible tells me so.
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