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                                             October 17, 2020


It's been common knowledge for years that           ALCOHOL
Studies Have Shown that "moderate" drinking
is supposed to be good for you.                     ALCOHOLIC_AVOIDANCE

I've always had my suspicions of those studies,
but I wasn't making any effort to follow the          Nothing about this
issue.                                                question is going
                                                      to influence my own
   It took quite some time, but it's looking          behavior: I don't
   like my skepticism was justified.                  do alcohol and am
                                                      not about to start.
   In 2008 a major study concluded that there
   wasn't any safe level for alcohol consumption.     For me, this is a
   The idea that a little bit is okay is              case study in our
   looking like it's simply wrong.  Alcohol is        collective ability
   bad for you, and a little bit of it may only       for doing risk
   be a little bad, but it's still bad.               assessment.

                                                      I think popular
                                                      understanding focuses
                                                      more on scientific
                                                      studies that provide
                                                      validation of common
                                                      practice rather than
                                                      challenges to it.


  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180824103018.htm

    "There is no safe level of drinking alcohol, concludes a new
    study. It shows that in 2016, nearly 3 million deaths
    globally were attributed to alcohol use, including 12 percent
    of deaths in males between the ages of 15 and 49."

    "The study, published today in the international medical journal
    The Lancet, shows that in 2016, nearly 3 million deaths globally
    were attributed to alcohol use, including 12 percent of deaths in
    males between the ages of 15 and 49."

    "'The health risks associated with alcohol are massive,' said
    Dr.  Emmanuela Gakidou of the Institute for Health Metrics
    and Evaluation at the University of Washington and the senior
    author of the study. 'Our findings are consistent with other
    recent research, which found clear and convincing
    correlations between drinking and premature death, cancer,
    and cardiovascular problems. Zero alcohol consumption
    minimizes the overall risk of health loss.' Gakidou is a
    professor of health metrics sciences at the UW School of
    Medicine, and of global health at the UW School of Public Health."



    " 'We now understand that alcohol is one of the major causes of
    death in the world today,' said Lancet Editor Richard Horton. 'We
    need to act now. We need to act urgently to prevent these
    millions of deaths. And we can.' "

    "This study used 694 data sources on individual and population-
    level alcohol consumption, along with 592 prospective and
    retrospective studies on the risk of alcohol use. More than 500
    GBD collaborators, such as researchers, academics, and others
    from more than 40 nations contributed to the study, according to
    Max Griswold, senior researcher and lead author."

    " 'With the largest collected evidence base to date, our study
    makes the relationship between health and alcohol clear --
    drinking causes substantial health loss, in myriad ways, all over
    the world,' Griswold said. "



    "'There is a compelling and urgent need to overhaul policies to
    encourage either lowering people's levels of alcohol consumption
    or abstaining entirely,' she said. 'The myth that one or two
    drinks a day are good for you is just that -- a myth. This study
    shatters that myth.'"



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