2 servings of alcoholic beverages a day is a level of consumption correlated with BETTER general health outcomes than NO DRINKING AT ALL. Granted, that doesn’t imply causation; it might just be that the laid-back type of person likely to engage in such a pattern of drinking generally has a slew of other healthy habits, relationships, and stress-coping mechanisms that someone violently emotionally opposed to drinking is less likely to share.
To put that into perspective, the studies I’ve seen on maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy don’t even show the slightest statistical blip in infant birth weights cropping up until that level of consumption is passed; but due to a surfeit of caution it’s recommended that pregnant or nursing women abstain entirely.
So, what we have here is a level of alcohol consumption generally correlated with longer lives and better health, a level of alcohol consumption so mild and generally safe that it might even be on the threshold to be considered safe enough for pregnant women, and the British government is treating it like a disease and prescribing medication to combat it. That’s just a lovely use of a nation’s resources now isn’t it? Wage war on health, war on happiness, and charge the people higher taxes to do so.
My adopted brother has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. There is no way on earth I would ever risk that for my child.
We belong to a fundamental Baptist church & if they knew I had wine every night they would probably remove me from membership roles. I think that is a silly and wrong interpretation of scripture. My husband, who used to have a few beers with his fellow coaches once a week, quit drinking completely when we started attending this church. I never drank anything due to several pregnancies, but just this week bought some wine.
My mom had a massive heart attack at age 51 and since she wasn’t in any high risk category (age, weight, etc) they tested her for elevated levels of Lpa. She was very high, I was tested as well and was double the maximum “normal” level at the age of 30. Alcohol is literally the only thing they know that lowers your Lpa levels.
At the age of 40 I think I can now start drinking wine at night, it doesn’t make my husband happy, but he loves me more than our church’s rules.