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Moderate Drinking Linked to Lower Overall Mortality Rate, Says National Academy of Sciences

posted 2 months ago by Satan2016 (26197)
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Drink to science tonight! Fuck the neo-prohibitionists.

https://reason.com/2024/12/31/moderate-drinking-linked-to-lower-overall-mortality-rate-says-national-academy-of-sciences/

"When it comes to alcohol consumption, there is no safe amount that does not affect health," declared the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2022. "No, moderate drinking isn't good for your health," headlined The Washington Post citing a 2023 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) meta-analysis probing the epidemiological association between mean daily alcohol intake and all-cause mortality. Interestingly, two of the co-authors of the JAMA article have been associated with various neo-prohibitionist organizations.

A new report reviewing evidence on moderate alcohol consumption and health outcomes issued earlier this month by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) concludes that the WHO and the JAMA researchers are wrong. Moderate drinking is associated with some health benefits, with one notable exception.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (13168) 2 months ago

They go back and forth on this stuff and different studies come to opposite conclusions.

[–] AndyKing1967 (39849) 2 months ago

Hurrah! 🍺🍷🍸🍹🍻🥂🍾🥃🍶🧉🥤

[–] jriley555 (8548) 2 months ago

If moderate drinking improves health, it stands to reason that heavy drinking improves it even more.

When you start seeing spiders on the wall, though, time to cut back a bit. Find that sweet spot.

[–] Lord Rake (4536) 2 months ago

I dont like spiders and will therefore increase my rate of drinking when I start to see them.

[–] MarkPh (1049) 2 months ago

These statistics cannot be correct, because nobody can observe the drinking habits of a group of people large enough to be a relavant sample for long enough to give valid results, they can only be based on surveys where people are asked how much they drink and I don't know anyone who would be honest about it, even people who say they don't drink at all cannot be trusted, because a former alcoholic who has been dry for 5 years or so will say in a survey he doesn't drink at all.

[–] AndyKing1967 (39849) 2 months ago

I’m happy to volunteer 🙋‍♂️

[–] Mustang (5571) 2 months ago

And the reason we are meant to live forever is what exactly? Work more years, pay more taxes? I'll drink and might take up smoking too.

[–] filmflaneur (3095) 2 months ago

Bears shit in woods, says National Forestry Service.