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This is a good case of statistics being insufficient without proper interpreting. There's a huge difference between the health of someone who has one drink with
by x220 8y ago
This is a good case of statistics being insufficient without proper interpreting. There's a huge difference between the health of someone who has one drink with dinner every day and someone who has seven drinks in one night every Friday and passes out at a bar. Mere total alcohol consumption is insufficient to determine abuse.
- RobAtticus 8y agoSure, but you'd need to give some evidence that the USA's distribution of consumption is notably different than similar Western countries, e.g., the UK or Germany, which consume 25-30% more per person than the US. Basically the US would need to have a lot more heavy drinkers and a lot more (near) teetotalers for it to have both a (non-trivially) lower average per capita AND more dangerous drinking habits.
- x220 8y agoI'm not sure if that evidence exists or is easy to find. From anecdotal evidence I can say that the people I've seen drinking in America either drink quite rarely (a couple times a week) and far too much at a time (vomiting) or hardly drink at all. Anecdotally I've learned that in parts of Ireland you can see people drinking very regularly but not so much that they get drunk when they do drink.
- moron4hire 8y agoYour liver doesn't really care the time frame over which you drink the alcohol.
- mattkrause 8y agoAre you sure about that? Steatosis is reversible if you give the liver time to recover, for example.
- moron4hire 8y agoWhether it's one drink a night or seven on the weekend, yes, it doesn't really matter.