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It’s totally bizarre that the article seems to regard “one drink per day” as some kind of minimum. Lots of us drink far less than that!
by foldr 6y ago
It’s totally bizarre that the article seems to regard “one drink per day” as some kind of minimum. Lots of us drink far less than that!
- djbebs 6y agoThis. I drink a glass of wine maybe once every 2 months. Would i be better off just drinking water? Sure, but the difference isnt big enough to change it
- eurasiantiger 6y agoIt is all about whether the health benefits of polyphenols override the harm of drinking something that is essentially a degreaser. All mammalian cell walls are made of lipids, after all...
- mnd999 6y agoI doubt the difference would even be measurable.
- mort96 6y agoYeah, 7 drinks a week is actually rather heavy... I suppose this research is going against the idea that one glass of wine per day is healthy, and the BBC had to give it a clickbait headline? Plus, I'm not actually super concerned about my chances of disease rising from 914/100000 to 918/100000 over my life?
- Sebb767 6y agoTo be honest, this actually seems quite low. Most self-tests would classify you as an alcoholic for drinking every day; it's quite surprising to me that the difference is only 0.004%
- dagw 6y agoAlso, and more importantly, they make no distinction between "one drink a day" and "7 drinks a week" or "365 drinks over a year".
- caskstrength 6y ago> It’s totally bizarre that the article seems to regard “one drink per day” as some kind of minimum. Lots of us drink far less than that! Yeah, that was my thought as well. I would assume correct baseline to be "two drinks at Friday evening every week or two". In fact, correct article title would to be "No stage of _alcoholism_ is safe, global study finds".
- tomcooks 6y agoIt's to balance out the liars.