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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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