No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health

Re:No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health by PartiallyTyped on Saturday February 11, 2023 @09:41AM (#34752674)

> Which is ironic, because, while most people use the "Linear no-threshold" model for radiation, we know that small amounts of radiation are actually beneficial.

How could ionizing radiation be beneficial? Unless the argument is exposure to ultraviolet in lieu of getting Vitamin D, I can’t imagine ionizing radiation to be beneficial in any way.

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Re:No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health by nordsieck on Saturday February 11, 2023 @09:43AM (#34752691)

> How could ionizing radiation be beneficial?

I'm not going to pretend that I understand the reasons. But there have been a lot of studies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2477686/

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Re:No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health by hackandthink on Saturday February 11, 2023 @10:19AM (#34753072)

I think before the atomic bomb radioactivity was widely considered as healthy.

(maybe it was not as crazy as I thought)

This is wild stuff:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180306-a-spa-where-pati...

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Re:No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health by etothepii on Saturday February 11, 2023 @10:02AM (#34752892)

Just because something does not work in theory does not mean that it does not work in practice.

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