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Re:Top 10% of American adults consume, on average, 74 alcoho... by redthrowaway on Thursday September 25, 2014 @06:02PM (#8370022)
I find it weird that >15 drinks a week is 80%ile, given that that's a pretty standard moderate level of drinking in many parts of the world and is significantly healthier than not drinking at all.

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/truth-wo...

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Re:Top 10% of American adults consume, on average, 74 alcoho... by bagels on Thursday September 25, 2014 @06:18PM (#8370099)
That study defines "moderate" as 1-2 drinks a day, if you look at the chart in the article you linked, >6 drinks per day had higher mortality rate.
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Re:Top 10% of American adults consume, on average, 74 alcoho... by redthrowaway on Thursday September 25, 2014 @06:36PM (#8370195)
It's >15 drinks per week, not per day. Let's call that 3/day, which is significantly better for your health than not drinking at all.
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Re:Top 10% of American adults consume, on average, 74 alcoho... by a8da6b0c91d on Thursday September 25, 2014 @08:01PM (#8370540)
IQ and alcohol consumption are highly correlated. IQ and health & longevity and highly correlated. I think even a lot of alcohol in the context of a good diet is benign, but I'm skeptical about the health benefit claims. I think they're just not properly controlling for other factors like intelligence. Somebody needs to run the data controlling for IQ.
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