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From at least 2018, medical research says that the first drop starts to harm. In 2023, WHO adopted that position. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/alcohol-a
by aitchnyu 1y ago
From at least 2018, medical research says that the first drop starts to harm. In 2023, WHO adopted that position.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/alcohol-and-your-health-is-none-better-than-a-little-2018091914796 https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/alcohol-and-your-health-...
https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...
- moi2388 1y agoThen I hereby want to bet £1000,- for any physician which can test me and tell me how much alcohol I’ve drank the past 20 years, if they claim they can see the damage in any kind.
- recursivecaveat 1y agoRead it like: "any amount of gambling may lose you money". The damage is proportional (and to some extent probabilistic) to the amount. As opposed to say: "any amount of horizontal speed may put you into orbit", which is not true ofc, there's a floor below which you will come right back down. Its a distinction between something which has non-zero levels that have no effect and something where the effect scales all the way from 0. It's a statement about populations obviously, diagnostics have finite precision etc etc, but it holds true as far as we know.