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Brain health: Even a little alcohol impairs brain blood flow (www.medicalnewstoday.com)
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[–] -3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

A little alcohol is too broad. It's intentionally misleading by being vague.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The very first sentence is

    A new study examined the impact of alcohol consumption in healthy adults who did not report drinking more than the accepted ‘low-risk’ alcohol limits.

    Which makes it very clear that by "little" in the title (they do not say "little" in the article) they mean "below the low-risk limit", and that "low-risk" is a technically defined term. Here is also the very first sentence of the abstract of the paper which the article is about, which they link to and is free to read:

    Low-level alcohol consumption at or below current guidelines (≤1 standard drink equivalent/day for females, ≤2 standard drink equivalents/day for males)

    What more do you want?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    2 drinks a day is a lot of alcohol imo. I'd love a study that looks at more normal amounts of alcohol (imo being less than 0.5 drinks a day on average)

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I think one of the main points of this study is exactly to show that studying such smaller quantities would be worthwhile and could have tangible health implications

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    They are addressing a common myth that a small amount of alcohol has health benefits, which has always been bullshit junk science promoted by beer and wine industry and european culture.

    It was true 250 years ago in the time of cholera, when it was safer to drink weak ales than local water supplies.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    but some governments call this a safe level.

    Canada, updated in 2023 but was 2x this before:

    0 drinks/week: No risk; better health and sleep.

    1–2 drinks/week: Low risk; likely to avoid alcohol-related consequences.

    3–6 drinks/week: Moderate risk; increased risk of developing several types of cancer.

    7+ drinks/week: Increasingly high risk of heart disease or stroke.

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