I’ve replicated this study and reached similar results.
Thanks for that!
The last recommendation was more socially acceptable at the time as drinking was more prevalent. People don’t like being told that happy hour makes them less healthy.
Seeing this after the holidays: “Guess I’ll die.” ¯\(ツ)/¯
We are all dying sooner or later, but we can someday a little bit choose how we go.
I’m all for decreasing alcohol consumption, I think last year I was around 1-2 drinks a week, but I also strongly believe you should enjoy life. For me, that mostly means eating more red meat and chocolate than advised. In my 20s, it was less meat and more alcohol. Was it “necessary”? No, but I liked it. I would do it again.
Enjoy life!
That’s a long paragraph for saying YOLO
I don’t have the power of briefness 🤣
Uhm… re-read the message I’m replying too?
LOL
And enjoy the life of others! (see: username)
This is another of a long line of these studies. The effects they get from this type of epidemiology is entirely an artifact of the inclusion/exclusion criteria.
In this case they say they controlled for formerly heavy drinkers who now abstain. Without reading the paper in detail we don’t know if they controlled for socio-economic status etc. For example that group may include a group of former polydrug users who were insecurely housed. Assigning that group to “heavy drinkers now abstaining” will tilt the results. There are chronic health conditions that arise from that lifestyle independent of alcohol use.
Epidemiology needs to be treated with kid gloves and I find this kind of advocacy unhelpful.
Reads news……there are two weeks/day right?
It appears I killed it at the family Christmas party, in more ways than one, with that mini keg.
