Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!
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This is it, however...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-0277.2010.01286.x/abstract
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Here is the full abstract...
Abstract
Background: Growing epidemiological evidence indicates that moderate alcohol consumption is associated with reduced total mortality among middle-aged and older adults. However, the salutary effect of moderate drinking may be overestimated owing to confounding factors. Abstainers may include former problem drinkers with existing health problems and may be atypical compared to drinkers in terms of sociodemographic and social-behavioral factors. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality over 20 years among 1,824 older adults, controlling for a wide range of potential confounding factors associated with abstention.
Methods: The sample at baseline included 1,824 individuals between the ages of 55 and 65. The database at baseline included information on daily alcohol consumption, sociodemographic factors, former problem drinking status, health factors, and social-behavioral factors. Abstention was defined as abstaining from alcohol at baseline. Death across a 20-year follow-up period was confirmed primarily by death certificate.
Results: Controlling only for age and gender, compared to moderate drinkers, abstainers had a more than 2 times increased mortality risk, heavy drinkers had 70% increased risk, and light drinkers had 23% increased risk. A model controlling for former problem drinking status, existing health problems, and key sociodemographic and social-behavioral factors, as well as for age and gender, substantially reduced the mortality effect for abstainers compared to moderate drinkers. However, even after adjusting for all covariates, abstainers and heavy drinkers continued to show increased mortality risks of 51 and 45%, respectively, compared to moderate drinkers.
Conclusions: Findings are consistent with an interpretation that the survival effect for moderate drinking compared to abstention among older adults reflects 2 processes. First, the effect of confounding factors associated with alcohol abstention is considerable. However, even after taking account of traditional and nontraditional covariates, moderate alcohol consumption continued to show a beneficial effect in predicting mortality risk.
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Okay so far every article and study posted so far is useless and doesn't tell us anything real that we can use, except this last article.
This last article seems to be something new to this discussion, not about what we were discussing such as 1 8oz red wine per day blah blah... But about social drinking, and how long you live... Not due to alcohol, but because of what you do when under the effects of alcohol when you drink socially... which is going to be more than 8oz of red wine.
I didn't read yet the whole article or the study because I need to sleep, but will look it over more tomorrow and we'll see what I can conclude from it.
Perhaps things are different than we both thought.
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@scottalanmiller said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
I could do everything right, but if I started every day with 2lb of bacon, I'd die quickly.
To this, I say: Hurry to meet death before your bacon is taken!
(Sorry, I have nothing else to add to the discussion... but I couldn't let that one slip by)
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I think averages don't work well with alcohol. I know people that drink a glass of wine everynight or maybe a mixed drink, but only one and never both. I also know people that drink very heavily one or two nights a month, but dont drink daily. They may drink 10 drinks a night for 2 days a month. Their total of 20 drinks is considered less than 1 drink a day. I think you could argue that heavy drinking does more damage than daily drinking
Even people who consider themselves non-drinkers tend to drink at least 3-4 times a year and sometimes heavily, but just on those occasions.
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The test may have required a certain alcohol consumption on a certain interval for a set number of days, but in my experience that doesn't represent the real world. I would say a good number of casual drinkers drink to get drunk at least occassionally. They dont exactly fit the drink a day category nor do they fit into the binge drinking category.
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@irj said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
The test may have required a certain alcohol consumption on a certain interval for a set number of days, but in my experience that doesn't represent the real world. I would say a good number of casual drinkers drink to get drunk at least occassionally. They dont exactly fit the drink a day category nor do they fit into the binge drinking category.
Only in the US. Outside of the US, steady moderate alcohol consumption is extremely normal.
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@tim_g said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
Okay so far every article and study posted so far is useless and doesn't tell us anything real that we can use, except this last article.
This last article seems to be something new to this discussion, not about what we were discussing such as 1 8oz red wine per day blah blah... But about social drinking, and how long you live... Not due to alcohol, but because of what you do when under the effects of alcohol when you drink socially... which is going to be more than 8oz of red wine.
I didn't read yet the whole article or the study because I need to sleep, but will look it over more tomorrow and we'll see what I can conclude from it.
Perhaps things are different than we both thought.
But that last one is the one referenced by several of the others
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@scottalanmiller said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
@tim_g said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
Okay so far every article and study posted so far is useless and doesn't tell us anything real that we can use, except this last article.
This last article seems to be something new to this discussion, not about what we were discussing such as 1 8oz red wine per day blah blah... But about social drinking, and how long you live... Not due to alcohol, but because of what you do when under the effects of alcohol when you drink socially... which is going to be more than 8oz of red wine.
I didn't read yet the whole article or the study because I need to sleep, but will look it over more tomorrow and we'll see what I can conclude from it.
Perhaps things are different than we both thought.
But that last one is the one referenced by several of the others
I've been discussing the UT results since very early on.That study has NOTHING to do with alcohol and health... literally, none whatsoever. It ONLY has to do with mortality risk. Just because you aren't dead, doesn't mean you are healthy. Again, being alive is not any kind of good indication of health.
You are doing what Robert is doing... by making yourself look correct by saying something completely different is true. This isn't even what this topic is about.
It does nothing to say that a heavy drinker who lived to be 100 years old was healthy. Maybe the last 30 years was the worst 30 years of his/her life because of health issues, but still drank and lived long.
The results speaks for itself.
That article you linked had made some bold claims... such as the basis of the article, it's in the title, says that alcohol is not a poison... which he is basing off of a study that is not even related.
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So let's get back on track... you always start out saying alcohol is healthy, and that you drink because 8oz of wine was shown to be healthy if consumed moderately (7 or less per week, not all at once).
That's the basis of everything, which we now have shown to be bad studies and totally fake conclusions.
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@tim_g said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
That study has NOTHING to do with alcohol and health... literally, none whatsoever. It ONLY has to do with mortality risk.
While mortality is not the end all of health, I think most people agree that being alive is the largest single and most objective health factor that there is and could ever possibly be.
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The only real study done, has shown that moderate to heavy drinking is shown to have a positive effect on how long you live, but has NOTHING to do with your health.
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@scottalanmiller said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
@tim_g said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
That study has NOTHING to do with alcohol and health... literally, none whatsoever. It ONLY has to do with mortality risk.
While mortality is not the end all of health, I think most people agree that being alive is the largest single and most objective health factor that there is and could ever possibly be.
I guess that's up to the individual to decide, how he/she wants to feel their last 20-30 years of their life.
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@tim_g said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
So let's get back on track... you always start out saying alcohol is healthy...
No, the track was you claiming that you had proof that alcohol was NOT healthy, ever. There is no such proof, none. That's totally false.
That there are studies that show that alcohol lowers mortality (the massive leader in health indicators) is unquestionable.
Bottom line... drinking alcohol has ever indicator of being healthy, and there are no studies to the contrary.
My point was disputing your original statement as being unfounded. You've used the very logic that undoes your original post to try to undo the opposite.
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@tim_g said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
@scottalanmiller said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
@tim_g said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
That study has NOTHING to do with alcohol and health... literally, none whatsoever. It ONLY has to do with mortality risk.
While mortality is not the end all of health, I think most people agree that being alive is the largest single and most objective health factor that there is and could ever possibly be.
I guess that's up to the individual to decide, how he/she wants to feel their last 20-30 years of their life.
Right, I'd like my last 30 years to be old years not young ones. Being 80 and sickly is way better than being 80 and dead.
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@tim_g said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
The only real study done, has shown that moderate to heavy drinking is shown to have a positive effect on how long you live, but has NOTHING to do with your health.
You TRULY BELIEVE that BEING ALIVE has nothing to do with health?
You actually think that you can be dead AND healthy at the same time?
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Okay, let's change the topic. Since being alive isn't considered to reflect on being healthy, we have just defined "healthy" as not important.
So alcohol isn't healthy... great! Apparently healthy is a bad thing. I'd way rather be alive if that's the alternative to being healthy.
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@tim_g said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
The only real study done, has shown that moderate to heavy drinking is shown to have a positive effect on how long you live, but has NOTHING to do with your health.
What? How is being alive unrelated to health?
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@scottalanmiller said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
Bottom line... drinking alcohol has ever indicator of being healthy, and there are no studies to the contrary.
Every indicator? No, every indicator of being healthy means that you in fact have every good-health indicator... such as correct blood pressure, weight, blood sugar levels, etc etc...
That study does nothing of the sort.
The only indicator that I've ever seen is from a single study that shows moderate drinkers have ~50% less mortality risk for those between 55-65 years old in that study.
That's all that the study shows, nothing more and nothing less. That article you shown makes a ton of other claims.
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@scottalanmiller said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
@irj said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
The test may have required a certain alcohol consumption on a certain interval for a set number of days, but in my experience that doesn't represent the real world. I would say a good number of casual drinkers drink to get drunk at least occassionally. They dont exactly fit the drink a day category nor do they fit into the binge drinking category.
Only in the US. Outside of the US, steady moderate alcohol consumption is extremely normal.
Why is that, you suppose?
