How drinking alcohol can affect your health

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I need that gene variant making it unpleasant to drink....

Sorry drinkers, but you're often the same people who'll be happy to give a lecture about the dangers of sugar in a soft drink while pounding back your eighth pint of liquid liver failure.

Alcohol DESTROYS your body, fuels government tax coffers and, if drinking it is followed to its logical conclusion, ultimately keeps Big Pharma rolling in cash treating your self-inflicted ailments.

STOP falling for the cop out that it's "just social"...as if cirrhosis and a beer gut are the somehow worth it, and START trading the booze for a some exercise and proper nutrition before you continue to fund your own demise.

And yet moderate drinkers live longer than those who don't drink at all.

And yet moderate drinkers live longer than those who don't drink at all.

No, in reality alcohol is linked to over 200 serious health issues, and even so-called "moderate drinking" is linked to cancer, heart disease, and liver damage.

A 2022 meta-analysis published in The Lancet confirmed that there is NO safe level of alcohol consumption when it comes to health risks.

So no, sipping that wine won't make you live longer - it just gives you a fancier way to reduce it.

It affects your wallet and waistline, too. I've always thought that if you ever want to lose weight, the first thing you should do is reduce your alcohol intake by at least half. You'll sleep better, be less likely to miss a workout, and drinking alcohol is basically mainlining calories.

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Drinking a few everyday is probably not great for your health. Having an occasional glass of wine or a beer or two likely does no more harm than having a Big Mac, pizza or most other comfort foods. Most good tasting stuff is "not good for you" according to some study somewhere. Until an opposing study comes out. Just chill, enjoy the occasional vice from time to time and be happy. My two cents.

Just chill, enjoy the occasional vice from time to time and be happy. My two cents.

Agreed BL, but I think we need to question why that "occasional vice" has to be alcohol. If we're all about chilling and being happy, why not replace it with something that actually benefits us - like exercise or learning a skill? Why choose a substance that's a proven depressant, increases cancer risks, and ruins livers when there are countless healthier ways to unwind and find joy.

Agreed BL, but I think we need to question why that "occasional vice" has to be alcohol. If we're all about chilling and being happy, why not replace it with something that actually benefits us - like exercise or learning a skill?

Exercise and learning skills aren't vices. Well, depends on the skill I guess.

Stopped drinking two years ago because of health issues. I feel better and lose weight especially from not drinking beer.

Nobody has ever claimed that excessive drinking is healthy. My spider sense wakes up when suddenly government voices like Timothy Naimi and Vivek Murthy want everyone to talk about the dangers of alcohol. Is this not a bit of muddying the waters? So when now everywhere in the West suddenly the rates of cancer, heart attacks and all-cause-mortality go up noticable, that must be because we all started drinking too much? And not possibly because of a other causes, like, you know, the mass application of a new and insufficiently tested vaccine?

So when now everywhere in the West suddenly the rates of cancer, heart attacks and all-cause-mortality go up noticable, that must be because we all started drinking too much?

No part of the article could be interpreted this way, alcohol have been known to increase the risks for many health problems including cancer, this is not described as something that began (or even increased) recently but it is a cause that a lot of people try to ignore to avoid making difficult lifestyle changes and the industry of alcoholic beverages is very happy support them in this denialism.

What is surprising about making this discrepancy obvious at a season where a lot of people drink more than usual? Is as expected as having articles in the Japanese media about how to eat mochi safely during December.

Advise from people giving Americans advise and have you seen Americans. Enormous. Japan has some of the longest and healthiest people on the planet and they pickle themselves with the amount of alcohol the consume. Leave the advise for the other countries who have way more feed of advise.

virusrex

No part of the article could be interpreted this way, alcohol have been known to increase the risk

It absolutely can, seeing he timing of the mortality increase and his sudden interest by officials in the dangers of alcohol. Of course, I do not expect that any of your "respected institutions" show any curiosity in regard to this.

In the UK, 4% of the population drink 32% of the alcohol consumed.

It absolutely can, seeing he timing of the mortality increase and his sudden interest by officials in the dangers of alcohol. Of course, I do not expect that any of your "respected institutions" show any curiosity in regard to this.

The only rational conclusion is that the scientific consensus of all the respected institutions of the entire world is that all those health issues are caused by alcohol, Covid, and global warming...

It absolutely can, seeing he timing of the mortality increase and his sudden interest by officials in the dangers of alcohol. 

Again, that is much more easily explained with the season, where lots of people overdrink. Nothing in the article indicates this is in any way an explanation to an increase over years, that is all a terribly forced interpretation you are doing.

I do not expect that any of your "respected institutions" show any curiosity in regard to this.

You keep making up things about the articles in this section without reading them, quoting from it.

“The scientific consensus has shifted due to the overwhelming evidence linking alcohol to over 200 health conditions, including cancers, cardiovascular diseases and injuries,” said Carina Ferreira-Borges, regional adviser for alcohol at the World Health Organization regional office for Europe.

The only rational conclusion is that the scientific consensus of all the respected institutions of the entire world is that all those health issues are caused by alcohol, Covid, and global warming...

Making up obviously false claims because you have a systematic antiscientific bias do nothing against the actual consensus, which again is explained in the article.

virusrex

Again, that is much more easily explained with the season, where lots of people overdrink.

There is nothing in the article mentioning a seasonal phenomenon. I simply pointed out that timing of these statements from people related to governments are very convenient for some parties. (Some of your beloved "world-wide respected institutions" included). E.g. you can be sure that Peter Daszak and Fauci are a lot happier to discuss alcohol rather than all-cause mortality increases.

There is nothing in the article mentioning a seasonal phenomenon

There is nothing in the article mentioning a seasonal phenomenon

The date is what makes the explanation plausible, which is a much less forced than you pretending the article says something it does not even refer to at all.

I simply pointed out that timing of these statements from people related to governments are very convenient for some parties.

The timing is the first week of January, just after a lot of celebrations that involve alcohol.

 E.g. you can be sure that Peter Daszak and Fauci are a lot happier to discuss alcohol rather than all-cause mortality increases.

Making up random claims completely unrelated to the article makes no sense. The timing is much more easily explained by the season than something you would like to impose without reason to the article.

And again, Carina Ferreira-Borges is the expert in the article that expresses the consensus of science about how alcohol affects the health (not lately as you misrepresent, but since always).

Wish they also had strict guidelines on the muck they put into processed foods

@Jay

So no, sipping that wine won't make you live longer.

It can do when social dynamics are factored in. Moderate drinkers tend to have more socially dynamic lives and appreciation for the finer things in life, given that alcohol is an integral part of our cuisine and of many cultures. Epicurean lifestyles, with their positive and outgoing mental attitudes, are shown to be life-extending.

リッチyour saying Japanese live longest in world maybe in ur imagination come to Croatia Greece Albania there are people who live 100 or 115 years are eable to walk cook in their own Japanese I see how they walk randomly walk old people over 80 years I live here ...I see how they live healthy life it's not that healthy at all....I just see how they live

your saying Japanese live longest in world maybe in ur imagination come to Croatia Greece Albania 

In Croatia there are 244 people over 100yo from a total of 4 million, so one out of 16,400 people reach at least 100. In Japan there are 95,000 people over 100, out of 124 million of total population, so one out of 1,300 people reach 100 years old. This completely contradicts your claim, it is more than 10 times more likely for anybody to reach an advanced old age in Japan than in Croatia.