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3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Posted by samzenpus on from the drink-em-if-you-got-em dept.

Nzimmer911 writes "Heavy drinkers outlive non-drinkers according to a 20 years study following 1,824 people. From the article: 'But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that - for reasons that aren't entirely clear - abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers.'"

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  1. "risk of dying"? by by+(1706743) · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Summary:

    ...tend to increase one's risk of dying...

    Isn't my risk of dying, uh, pretty close to 1, regardless of other factors?

  2. Re:To be perfectly clear ... by PRMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Tell that to Enoch and Elijah...

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    Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...