If you booze, you lose.
New research suggests that no amount of alcohol is beneficial to your health or safe to consume as you age.
A 12-year United Kingdom study that tracked 135,000 adults 60 and older found that even light drinking was associated with an increase in cancer deaths. This uptick was most pronounced in older adults who live in low-income areas and have health troubles.
These findings contradict the previously held belief that small quantities of alcohol, particularly red wine, are good for the heart. This belief is based on shoddy evidence that the vino-avowed French have lower rates of heart disease.
Leave us older adults alone and some of the things I find questionable about this article.
Lead study author Rosario Ortolá, an assistant professor of preventive medicine and public health at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, told the New York Times, “We did not find evidence of a beneficial association between low drinking and [overall] mortality.” ” told the New york Times ” but this article was published by the New York Post.
The study linked heavy drinking, over 40 grams a day for men and over 20 grams a day for women, to more deaths from all causes. A standard US drink contains 14 grams of alcohol, the equivalent to 12 ounces of regular beer, 5 ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of liquor. She added that far from being good for you, consuming alcohol likely raises the risk of cancer “from the first drop.” So from what it looks like, if you drink one beer, or a glass of wine or have one shot a day, you are now a heavy drinker.
Other research recently suggested that consuming just one alcoholic beverage per day can shorten a person’s life span by approximately two and a half months. So, if you have just six beers, you shorten your life by one year three months. Well, using this stat, I died before I was even born. ( I’m 61 ).
A 12-year United Kingdom study that tracked 135,000 adults 60 and older found that even light drinking was associated with an increase in cancer deaths. This uptick was most pronounced in older adults who live in low-income areas and have health troubles. So, if you or well off and no health issues = no problem.
If you listen to George Thorogood, you have just shorten your life by seven and a half months. ( us older people will understand this ) LOL
The “powers that be” don’t want people to drink because when people drink their fear level goes down and are much more likely to stand up for themselves and rebel against a tyrannical government