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Alcohol is the root of 62 diseases and a partial cause of dozens more (hsph.harvard.edu)

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[-] stickly@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

So you're telling me without alcohol I could have spent my life picking berries before I died of a toothache at 25? And instead I'm reading excel sheets and will die a prolonged death after years of chemo at 85?

Damn alcohol really is the cause of all my problems...

[-] Mearcfara@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

The "dying at 25" thing is the result of a common misrepresentation of data. Infant mortality rates were significantly higher in the past, so the average gets thrown off. But, if you remove those data points (to reflect post-infancy mortality), you'd be living roughly the same amount of time.