Moderate drinking healthy? Bullshit!

[K.I.L.E.R]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=46&ObjectID=10358263
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...ink02.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/12/02/ixhome.html

Of course I already knew this simply because no amount of poison poured into your body is healthy.
Even though we've all tried it, me included.

 

[Humus]

I don't exactly consider "two or three glasses of wine a day" to be "moderate drinking".

 

[Azrael]

There are "scientific" studies for everything that take opposite sides of every issue. It's hard to put much stock in any of them. What I do know is from personal experience. Of all my family and friends that have drank, smoked, or drank & smoked... not one of them has died from anything related to drinking but 3 have from smoking related illnesses. Just an observation.

 

[drspangle]

I read an article about it in the (paper) nz herald and it turns out the story is more sensationalism than journalism: at the end it states categoritcally that their finding mean that its possible that the original study was incorrect - not that it was wrong.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

That's exactly what I thought about the studies saying that alcohol has benefits.

 

[KimB]

Me? I find it sad that it's taken this long to bother checking the systematics of the original study. In physics, such analyses typically happen within weeks, not decades.