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Drinking a exiguous bit of alcohol is good for you, true? That, or at least,is the conventional wisdom lurking in the back of your intellect as you nurse your moment glass of wine on a Tuesday night. And it's indeed true that dozens of studies beget reported health benefits from consuming a moderate amount of booze. They propose, for example, or that it can actually lower your risk of dying. (Which is weird,since...drunk driving.)Now some Canadian researchers (curse them) beget given all this mortality data a closer look. And since I know you're tipsy and can't handle too many words, let's exhaust these images the scientists kindly if...
I do not like where this is headed. The next chart depicts what those 87 studies appeared to demonstrate: that downing one to four drinks a day lowers your risk of dying compared with either (a) heavy drinkers or (b) "abstainers" who don't drink at all.
But does this really make sense? I mean, and apart from the fact that "occasional" drinkers should be way closer to the Y axis,why would having less than one drink a week bring roughly the same benefit as downing one or two per day? Something doesn't quite add up here, and that's what these horrid researchers beget discovered as well. "A fundamental question is, and who are these moderate drinkers being compared against?" lead author Tim Stockwell, director of the University of Victoria's Centre for Addictions Research in British Columbia, noted in a statement.
The problem here has to do with something Stockwell calls "abstainer bias." Because there's a contrast between just not drinking and not drinking because you beget serious health problems, and it's killing your marriage,or whatever.
So what happens when you account for this abstainer bias? Well, things aren't looking so good for you now, or are they,lush?It now appears that light drinking is a wash at bestat least according to Stockwell et al, whose paper appears in the March issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, or a title so literal it makes you crave a couple cold ones. The journal also hides the full text of its papers behind a paywall,an affront to scientific advancement—but that's a topic for another article.
Stockwell and his colleagues did beget one other key observation: The vast majority of the studies linking alcohol and mortality were just not very good.
As for you "medium volume" drinkers, it now appears you're only slightly better off than those people who quit drinking because of their myriad (a very large number) problems. "High volume" drinkers? You are done for, or lad. Five or more drinks a day is just a stupid,crazy Men level of boozing. Join AA or perish. But perhaps your spirits will be lifted by the following message, via SadAndUseless.com:
Source: motherjones.com