Posted on 02/20/2018 9:59:50 AM PST by BenLurkin
Researchers discovered that subjects who drank about two glasses of beer or wine a day were 18 percent less likely to experience a premature death, the Independent reports.
Meanwhile, participants who exercised 15 to 45 minutes a day, cut the same risk by 11 percent.
“I have no explanation for it, but I do firmly believe that modest drinking improves longevity,” Kawas stated over the weekend at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual conference in Austin, Texas.
Other factors were found to boost longevity, including weight. Participants who were slightly overweight — but not obese — cut their odds of an early death by 3 percent.
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My grand dad had a glass of brandy every night just before bed time. He lived to 95. He died of heart disease, much preferable to cancer. I’ve often wondered about the relationship to moderate drinking and old age.
That is good for your family.
I’ve seen plenty of old people in my profession, and I can tell you I don’t want to live past my mid 80’s.
Too many 90 something’s wished they would already pass.
Good one!
“I have no explanation for it, but I do firmly believe that modest drinking improves longevity,”
And more than modest drinking improves longevity even more. That’s my “I have no explanation” reasoning.
I predict a lot of people with a poor understanding of statistics will attempt to “refute” this finding. Me, I suspect moderate alcohol intake has a positive effect upon arterial plaque as well as possibly being anti-inflammatory, since it’s an anti-coagulant just as most anti-inflammatories are, natural or otherwise. Then, there’s always the mood enhancing aspect of moderate intake for most individuals, they’re a little happier, a little more relaxed. We’re talking moderate intake here, folks, save the stories of raging alkies, we all know how poorly they fare in general.
Jesus drank wine, that’s good enough for me.
Most of my Baptist teetotaler family members have passed on and make no mistake, I loved them dearly, but pretending that wine was grape juice in Biblical times just didn’t make sense, they had no refrigeration. Fermentation was the means of preservation that they had and that means alcohol. I respect anyone who abstains for religious reasons regardless of the nature of that reasoning, but there’s no Biblical basis for condemning moderate alcohol consumption. There is for drunkenness so there’s a definite line, though.
Yep. We attended a fundamental Baptist Church for several years and that belief never made sense; even after going through a bible study series on that topic.
I just quietly had my wine in the evenings and hid the bottle if the pastor came over. If I were ever caught I would no longer have been eligible to teach VBS or audit the books every year. Totally worth the risk.
The problem I see in this thread is that no one can define what is “moderate” drinking.
For someone 5’2” and 110# it is different than for someone 6’2” and 205#. It also matters if the person is drinking liquor, beer or wine, as they each have different alcohol content.
Moderate drinking precludes drunkenness. Individual performance will vary. So, if you start feeling a little tipsy, time to wrap it up. You get a little merriment, a little relaxation and fun but none of the idiocy, embarrassment or future health problems of being soused.
I know that my doctor and other medical professionals define a drink as one 12 ounce regular beer, a 5 ounce glass of wine or 1.5 ounces of liquor. Two drinks a day for an average sized man or woman, one drink for folks closer to 100 lbs. is what they call “moderate” in the medical profession.
Personally, I bought a breathalyzer a long time ago, as I like to go wine tasting and like gadgetry in general and 3 drinks puts me at .07 pretty consistently unless I have had almost nothing to eat. FWIW my wife ‘feels drunk’ at.05 amd I have played with people who can keep perfect time and solo of the most difficult of bebop or country swing changes at .30.
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