I was having an OK day until I found a Time magazine article on alcohol consumption… Suddenly, everything was brighter. Brace yourself, Blogtownies, for some of the best news you will receive all day. From the recent article:
…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.
The article goes on to explain that researchers have no clue why this is. I for one think it’s because I’m way more relaxed after two whiskey sodas than I was before I started imbibing them, and that can ONLY be healthy. Cheers, kids.
- She will outlive us all.
PROTIP: EVERYONE’S MORTATLITY RATE IS 100%
So, Leaving Las Vegas was a coming-of-age, feel-good story. I’ll have to watch it again.
I’ll drink to that!
“It’s true that those who abstain from alcohol tend to be from lower socioeconomic classes, since drinking can be expensive.” Umm.. Four Loko?
@Graham — PROTIP: A percentage is not the same as a rate, statistically speaking.
@ Graham & EGM:
PROTIP: It is actually snark (rather than love) which will tear us apart.
I had this crazy dream last night that I had really skinny arms. I wonder if Amy Winehouse had a crazy dream last night that she had tits…
Medical research has long established the fact that moderate drinkers tend to have better health and live longer than those who are either abstainers or heavy drinkers. In addition to having fewer heart attacks and strokes, moderate consumers of alcoholic beverages (beer, wine or distilled spirits or liquor) are generally less likely to suffer hypertension or high blood pressure, peripheral artery disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and other conditions and diseases.
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/AlcoholAn…