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Re:No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health by diydsp on Saturday February 11, 2023 @09:30AM (#34752581)
"because moderate drinkers tend to be very socially advantaged," Naimi says. Moderate drinkers tend to be healthier on average because they're well-educated and more affluent, not because they're drinking a bottle of wine a week on average. "[Their] alcohol consumption ends up looking good from a health perspective because they're already healthy to begin with."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/22/4714163...

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Re:No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health by B8MGHCBekDuRi on Saturday February 11, 2023 @09:45AM (#34752704)
> Moderate drinkers tend to be healthier on average because they're well-educated and more affluent, not because they're drinking a bottle of wine a week on average

the point is that non-drinkers live less.

Which totally contraddict the point that non drinking is good for you.

a recent Lancet study confirms that at 2 standard units per day there is non-drinking equivalence for health risks

2 units per day it's about a pint of beer per day.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

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Re:No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health by rcxdude on Saturday February 11, 2023 @10:11AM (#34753003)
Both can be true at once, for exactly the reason described: the causal effect goes in the other direction.
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Re:No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health by B8MGHCBekDuRi on Saturday February 11, 2023 @10:37AM (#34753257)
> Both can be true at once, for exactly the reason described: the causal effect goes in the other direction.

still non drinkers do not live longer on average.

which totally defeat one of the few benefits associated to not drinking, unless you don't like drinking.

even if minuscule doses of alcohol increased the risk of getting some form of cancer, I live in a big city, I already increased my risk of getting cancer 10x by simply breathing ...

And I surely don't enjoy smog and pollution as much as I enjoy beer.

If I had to eliminate one of them, I would go living in the country, where air is cleaner.

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