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I have known people who believe that "moderate drinking" is actually beneficial to health - something that has been shown to be untrue when controlling for soci
by pkd 5y ago
I have known people who believe that "moderate drinking" is actually beneficial to health - something that has been shown to be untrue when controlling for socio-economic factors.
I believe people should be free to chose to drink too, but alcohol is truly in the "culture", like you said. Very few clearly harmful activities like that are part of any culture and that is what makes it important for us to educate society about this. I believe that alcohol should come with the same level of warning as cigarettes do, but the society is not there yet.
- kovek 5y agoSuch a strong belief that moderate drinking is beneficial.. "It gets the heart running". How to explain that it's not beneficial? How to show a study and have people believe in said study? Which study did you refer to?
- pkd 5y agoThis one: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31310-2/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... I haven't personally managed (or even tried) to convince anybody because people feel personally attacked when their preferences are questioned, especially when these people believe themselves to be "scientifically-minded". I think everybody has to discover this on their own.
- more_corn 5y agoThere was a meta-study a year and a half ago. It seemed to indicate that the supposed beneficial effects could be explained by moderate drinkers tending to exercise more and generally make sound health decisions. The study seemed to indicate that the safe number of drinks is one or two PER WEEK. It seems that zero is the number of safe drinks per day.