Posted on 04/29/2024 11:39:43 AM PDT by Olog-hai
It’s wine time. Beer Thirty. Happy hour. Five o’clock somewhere.
Maybe it’s also time to rethink drinking?
Moderate drinking was once thought to have benefits for the heart, but better research methods have thrown cold water on that.
“Drinking less is a great way to be healthier,” said Dr. Timothy Naimi, who directs the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
Guidelines vary a lot from country to country but the overall trend is toward drinking less.
The United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Holland and Australia recently reviewed new evidence and lowered their alcohol consumption recommendations. Ireland will require cancer warning labels on alcohol starting in 2026. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
So alcohol is healthy for you! Who knew? Yay! Let’s all get sloshed.
Don’t see any evidence that Timothy Naimi is either a muslim or a pseudo-doctor.
The meaning of Naimi
Muslim: surname denoting descent from or association with someone called Naim.
https://discover.23andme.com/last-name/Naimi
Guy’s a fag.
Mohammed was a smart guy. He knew it would be hard to conquer the world with a bunch of drunks. Curiously only alcohol is expressly prohibited by the koran. Opium and cannabis, which were well known at the time aren’t even mentioned.
I’ll drink to that....
Yup
I don’t trust any of these doctors from Pakistan, India, etc unless they were educated in the US.
Even then, culture plays a big role in how they proceed and I’m looking for a doctor applying Western medicine and using Western cultural values.
He got his medical degree at UMass
This is news?
If drinking was that bad for you all the French and Irish would be dead. 🙄
Scrooge them and their opinions. I’m going to have my small glasses of red wine with dinner. Good for digestion and good for the bloodflow. God made grapes and Jesus turned water into wine. The key is dont drink excessively or overeat either.
I’ve never liked alcohol in any form but don’t begrudge people who choose to drink lightly or in moderation (well short of drunkenness.) I do think it kills way too many brain cells, and I need all that I can keep.
Drinking one serving of beer is the same as drinking 20 servings of beer.
Eating one hamburger is the same as eating 20 hamburgers.
Breathing 20% oxygen is the same as breathing 100% oxygen.
Most French and Irish people who ever lived are now dead.
But drinking may have had a role in them making more French and Irish people ...
Now, however, both ethnic groups have declining birth rates.
So maybe the French and Irish people aren’t drinking enough!
“To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.” Homer Simpson
The new anti-alcohol sentiment is because our governments want us hooked on weed instead: making us docile and uncaring, easy to control. They call it “dope” for a reason.
Drunks get angry and plan revolutions (ie, the Revolutionary war in taverns, the beer hall putsch with Hitler, etc) against their governments.
I myself will stick with a modified French plan—a generous glass of wine with dinner. A nice part of the Mediterranean diet.
Well, we’re having a nice Zinfandel with dinner tonight. 😉
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