Drinking Alcohol May Extend Your Life

Adolytsi writes "MSNBC has an interesting article on an Italian study on alcoholism. While the obvious notion of overconsumption of alcohol being detrimental to one's health is supported, apparently drinking it in moderation can actually extend your lifespan. A study on over 1 million drinkers and 94,000 deaths yielded the results: "According to the data, drinking a moderate amount of alcohol — up to four drinks per day in men and two drinks per day in women — reduces the risk of death from any cause by roughly 18 percent, the team reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine. However, "things radically change" when consumption goes beyond these levels, study leader Dr. Augusto Di Castelnuovo, from Catholic University of Campobasso, said in a statement. Men who have more than four drinks per day and women who have more than two drinks per day not only lose the protection that alcohol affords, but they increase their risk of death, the data indicates.""

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waste of a study

[ILuvRamen]

Oh good, another one of these studies. Alcohol can cause everything from nerve damage to throat cancer according to pretty much every other study there is. Hmm let's see, it kills bacteria on contact, burns when put on your membranes or other unprotected tissue because it basically destroys organic material, and is flammable yet indigestible and a cup of it pure will kill you...yup sounds perfectly safe, even GOOD FOR YOU! Total bullshit. It's like taking sleeping pills every single day for the rest of your life. It's horrible for you in the long run and will cause massive damage through nickle and diming your body to death. If you had four drinks a day like it said, not only would your liver would be toast but you'd be a stupid, idiotic, and probably abusive person to live with, everyone would hate you, you'd lose your job, get arrested, not remember any of that, and have severe brain and nerve damage. Just google "alcohol related problems" or "alcohol damage study" and you'll find about 10 articles telling the truth for every 1 of these BS ones. Btw the real most dangerous thing about drinking is doing it around me cuz you'll get hurt.

Re:waste of a study

[ILuvRamen]

hahahahahahahahaha me vs some drunk person....man, if you could see me, you'd be laughing. I can beat up most people that aren't drunk, let alone someone that's "lagging with a ping of 500+" lol. As for the rest of you alcoholics trying to feel better about yourselves by posting, I'll tell you as an outside observer that drunk people are ANNOYING. My dad's a DJ so we do lots of wedding with stupid drunks and they really piss me off. If you have to act like that to "have fun" as was mentioned above, you need serious help. That's like psychologist and Zoloft/Paxil scale problems with social anxiety disorder etc. And don't say that nobody's like that cuz more people than you want to admit can't go to a social event without getting drunk. Now follow your damn 12 step AA program and don't mod this down ya jerks, you're just making drunks look worse (if that's even possible)