Posted on 01/31/2022 10:27:20 AM PST by Red Badger
Next up, “science” determines that smoking is actually good for you.
My dad drank some red wine most every day from the age of 5. (Born in Italy). He only lived to be 92, probably due to all that drinking.
To the Science Preachers,
Slainte! Now feck off, eejits.
Did he smoke?.....................
Are their real world applications of this study ?
Pretty sure anyone drinking these days will not be doing it in moderation..
Yeah, I study retrospective treatment patterns for a living, and I can tell you that self-reported alcohol use is highly unreliable. If you tell your doctor you drink several times a week they will code you as alcohol dependent, so many people just deny drinking at all.
My favorite response was from a patient, when asked how much he drank, he simply said “not as much as I’d like to.”
are There, not are their.
just proof of no moderation for me today
8 drinks a WEEK? I don’t drink that much in a month. I’ve just never really been a drinker. But I don’t abstain, either. An occasional glass or two of wine, especially with a holday dinner. A celebratory single-malt scotch once in a great while. I’ve even been known to drink a beer every couple of years.
I drink hardly at all. I have lots of wine and hard liquor at home but never drink any, it’s mostly a decoration. Some of the liquor I have had for 20 years.....................
Did he smoke?..........
A little in WWII at the age of 19. Never after that. He died of Alzheimer’s. His caregivers said they were shocked at his physical strength at 92, and he weighed about 125 pounds.
They found nothing of the kind. Not even close. They found a CORRELATION that MIGHT mean what they claim, but they most certainly did NOT find that 'wine was minimally protective from ischemic heart disease'. That is a lie.
Idiotic garbage like this is why we have so many morons to deal with these days.
I have bottles and bottles of cachacas from my Brasilian party days direct from Brasil. Who knew that foul bile would mellow out so smooth? Even Velho Barreiro, which can also be used to remove enamel paint.
There is more to living a full life besides being ‘safe’.
Or, as Oscar Wilde said: “Everything in moderation, including
moderation!”
In small town north central Florida, three black Baptist women( they said they were black ) sold dollar pies in front of the local grocery. They wore wonderful colored hats, so you knew that the purple hat lady, little ole thing, had the best pies. Her two daughters (red hat green hat) both slight nod of the head acknowledging her stature as Pie Queen. Absolute teetotalers.
Fred, a good old Georgia boy, the local pharmacist across the street sold grosses of little bottles of “vitamin tonic” to these ladies , because that’s want they wanted, for years, taking their nighttime dose after supper.
Tonic bottles were four ounces, labeled Red Wine, and Fred’s comment was “they’ll get right angry if i run out”
I’ll drink to that.
I suppose I’ll just have to pour that new 1.5 liter bottle of Bushmills Irish down the drain. Same for 1.5 liter bottles of Beefeaters Gin Lambs Navy Rum.
Not.
My great-Grandpa home brewed wine in his basement. There was a bottle on the dinner table every day. He lived to be 98.
I don’t even drink coffee, much less alcoholic beverages. Couldn’t if I wanted to. Always driving. It’s a long way to anywhere in this state.
And a long life. Lucky for them the oldest of the old have the genes to handle anything, including a total lack of moderation. We need to develop that in pill form.
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