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Adults should have no more than one drink a day, a team of scientists says (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] 8 points 3 months ago* (10 children)

From a purely physical perspective that is probably true, however it's worth factoring in the mental aspect as well. With the world going to shit in a big way, having a drink on a Sunday afternoon might help take the edge off for some folks.

Everything is about moderation, don't take this as me championing binge drinking or anything like that, just that things that are physically bad for you can absolutely be used in moderation for enjoyment and that's important too.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Weed or Xanax or both is far safer than alcohol and works pretty well for that purpose

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

    Drinking a depressant will not help you feel better tbh

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It can, it really depends.

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4053968/

    It can help reduce stress levels, helping you to relax and unwind. To be clear, it's not a long term solution, it's not a panacea and it has its own drawbacks, but people in this thread keep jumping to excessive drinking as a reason it's bad and completely ignore that plenty of people are capable of moderating their intake.

    It doesn't have to be alcohol, this applies to damn near everything. We could be talking about burgers or marijuana, anyone ingesting either of those every day is heading for a bad time. But once now and again? It's not going to do any harm.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Here's a 2000 study that is, in part, a response to your 1985 review:

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11053757/

    Their conclusion:

    It is as yet impossible to determine to what extent moderate alcohol consumption causes positive psychological outcomes and to what extent it is part of a complex pattern of mutually reinforcing variables.

    In other words: you have committed the cardinal science sin of looking for sources that support your conclusion, instead of vice-versa. You shall now be punished with 100 hours of defending your position in this minor argument that you don't feel strongly about from random strangers online, including several hours that won't be used for several years until some weirdo with no social graces decides to respond to a thread that hasn't been active in about a decade.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Also might have potential for interrupting memory formation into PTSD after traumatic experiences, if taken before sleeping.

    Then again, so does Tetris. And a lot of people who experience traumatic events can't exactly go out for a night of drinking with friends immediately afterward.

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

    Everything is about moderation

    that is not true at all.

    just that things that are physically bad for you can absolutely be used in moderation for enjoyment and that's important too.

    that's juat terrible advice, ask any drug addict, or alcoholic or watch the video by Yul Brynner

    I'm not saying don't do it, I am suggeatibg encourgaing people to do stupid shit is a terrible thing to do.

    https://www.cancer.org.au/cancer-information/causes-and-prevention/diet-and-exercise/limit-alcohol

    There is convincing evidence that drinking any type of alcohol (beer, wine or spirits) increases the risk of cancers of the bowel, breast, mouth, throat, voice box, oesophagus (food pipe) and liver. The risk is even higher for some of these cancers in smokers who consume alcohol.

    Even drinking small amounts of alcohol increases your cancer risk.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    I'm literally saying that moderation is crucial. Drug addicts and alcoholics by their very definition are not doing things in moderation.

    You can do "healthy" things to excess as well, you can exercise too much, you can literally breathe too much, so don't go using an extreme as an example as to why something is bad.

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