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Re:Healthy habits add up to 10 disease-free years to your li... by DenisM on Monday January 13, 2020 @07:03PM (#22040223)
Ok, so it doesn't apply to your friends then? I am talking about daily drinking - the topic article promulgates it as "healthy".

Someone who "could stop drinking any time" and yet drinks every day year-round is de-facto addicted - among all the possible things they could do in the evening they always chose to do the same exact thing. Many addicts are high-functioning, but they are still addicts.

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Re:Healthy habits add up to 10 disease-free years to your li... by austingulati on Monday January 13, 2020 @07:25PM (#22040404)
FWIW the rest of the recommendation by the NIAAA (National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) is no more than 14 drinks per week for men and 7 drinks per week for women. So, they are not advising that 4 drinks per day every day for a week is safe.
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Re:Healthy habits add up to 10 disease-free years to your li... by DenisM on Monday January 13, 2020 @08:48PM (#22041046)
The article does not mention the weekly limit though, which is typical - 4 units per day is mentioned often and the second limit is hardly mentioned at all.
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