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OK, so moderate drinking is not good for you, it's just that being wealthier and better educated makes people more likely to be moderate drinkers. So, hopefull
by dmurray 10y ago
OK, so moderate drinking is not good for you, it's just that being wealthier and better educated makes people more likely to be moderate drinkers.
So, hopefully the causal explanation is that drinking moderately makes you smarter and richer, and eventually healthier.
- criddell 10y agoI don't drink a lot, so I guess I should focus on increasing my wealth.
- raverbashing 10y agoGiven that wealth is correlated with your ability to network and connect to other people, sounds there might be some truth to it
- nostrademons 10y agoCausation likely runs the other way. If you are economically comfortable, you are less likely to have problems that you would be tempted to "drink away", and so are more likely to be able to occasionally have a drink without it reaching the level of problem drinking. The article indicated that almost all of the health benefits of moderate drinking vs non-drinking were accounted for by the presence of "sick former drinkers", who were lumped in with non-drinkers in the original studies but had previously had a problem with alcohol abuse that they had been forced to kick for health reasons.
- coldtea 10y ago>OK, so moderate drinking is not good for you, it's just that being wealthier and better educated makes people more likely to be moderate drinkers. Or, rather, that's what a single, recent, and not battle tested, study claims. It will take a lot more studies, and meta-studies to come to any such conclusion -- even assuming this one got it right.