Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!
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I think the best guide is... in cultures with moderate alcohol consumption, does it show to be a health risk?
The answer is no. Cultures that drink moderate amounts of non-grain alcohols have the best health track records within the culture groups. If alcohol itself is not safe in any quantity, they show that the degree to which it is unsafe is inconsequential compared to whatever factors are improving health coincidental with it.
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If science proved that alcohol alters your DNA...
Also, the government has a LOT to lose by saying alcohol is bad... think of all the tax money!
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For example, drinking alcohol might be bad for you alone, but might encourage more social behaviour or happen coincidentally with more social behaviour, which might lead to better health. It's not the alcohol doing it, but the things associated with the alcohol like social or food choices might outweight the alcohol risks making it background noise.
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@tim_g said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
Also, the government has a LOT to lose by saying alcohol is bad... think of all the tax money!
And yet the US had prohibition and created the drug crisis - the desire to lose tax money in order to try to control the populace is a know problem in governments.
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@scottalanmiller said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
For example, drinking alcohol might be bad for you alone, but might encourage more social behaviour or happen coincidentally with more social behaviour, which might lead to better health. It's not the alcohol doing it, but the things associated with the alcohol like social or food choices might outweight the alcohol risks making it background noise.
I'd think logic says that the mindset of not drinking alcohol promotes better health habits.
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@tim_g said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
If science proved that alcohol alters your DNA...
One article that pretty much suggested that the problem was relegated to a specific SE Asian population lacking DNA protections.
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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!:
For example, drinking alcohol might be bad for you alone, but might encourage more social behaviour or happen coincidentally with more social behaviour, which might lead to better health. It's not the alcohol doing it, but the things associated with the alcohol like social or food choices might outweight the alcohol risks making it background noise.
I'd think logic says that the mindset of not drinking alcohol promotes better health habits.
Logic might say that, but if that is the case (I don't agree) then it suggests that it is the alcohol itself creating the healthy benefits!
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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!:
@scottalanmiller said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
For example, drinking alcohol might be bad for you alone, but might encourage more social behaviour or happen coincidentally with more social behaviour, which might lead to better health. It's not the alcohol doing it, but the things associated with the alcohol like social or food choices might outweight the alcohol risks making it background noise.
I'd think logic says that the mindset of not drinking alcohol promotes better health habits.
Logic might say that, but if that is the case (I don't agree) then it suggests that it is the alcohol itself creating the healthy benefits!
No, it's the awareness of alcohol being bad. Alcohol itself no. If you know it's bad, then you are more likely to be health conscious, as you are purposely taking steps to be healthier. Such as taking other steps or actions in addition to alcohol abstinence.
If you drink alcohol, you're more likely to care less about health... I can name so many examples.
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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!:
@scottalanmiller said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
For example, drinking alcohol might be bad for you alone, but might encourage more social behaviour or happen coincidentally with more social behaviour, which might lead to better health. It's not the alcohol doing it, but the things associated with the alcohol like social or food choices might outweight the alcohol risks making it background noise.
I'd think logic says that the mindset of not drinking alcohol promotes better health habits.
Logic might say that, but if that is the case (I don't agree) then it suggests that it is the alcohol itself creating the healthy benefits!
No, it's the awareness of alcohol being bad. Alcohol itself no. If you know it's bad, then you are more likely to be health conscious, as you are purposely taking steps to be healthier. Such as taking other steps or actions in addition to alcohol abstinence.
If you drink alcohol, you're more likely to care less about health... I can name so many examples.
I feel like that's more an American concept. I think a lot of the healthy world, whether European or Asian or whatever, tend to spend less time worried about health options. Like in Italy, I never met people worried about getting healthy food, yet ate realy healthily all the time because their food options were good and their food traditions were insanely healthy compared to what we get in the US. but there weren't "organic sections" at the grocery stores, but all the food was super healthy.
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@tim_g said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
That's quoting the same article, though. A better write up, but not an additional source.
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PopSci has some weird statements like this... "A single unit of alcohol a day (less than a half a glass of wine) was associated with the lowest risk of dementia, and other negative effects on health. But as Welch points out, contrary to some popular beliefs, the study indicated that those relatively safe sips of alcohol had no significant health benefits."
So, while alcohol is associated with the lowest risks, it has no significant benefits? Which is it? I consider being in the lowest risk pool for dementia a significant benefit, even if the authors of the article think that dementia is a trivial thing.
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And this... "Does this mean that anyone who has a few drinks a week is at risk for brain damage? Not necessarily."
Okay, so not all people are even at risk from alcohol. This means that according to this study, if you are in the right gene pool or whatever, it is completely safe at correct amounts - debunking the titles and claims they try to promote to get more views.
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This is better than red wine...
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Also, and this is SUPER important: "This was an observational study—researchers didn't run a controlled experiment, instead relying on data collected as patients went about their normal lives."
No control group, this wasn't a scientific study. There is no science here, just some casual observations that don't conflict with what we already knew - that moderate wine consumption has health benefits that most of us, but not the authors, feel are significant.
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What this study has shown, and the only thing that it has shown, is that the British government is using non-scientific studies to make claims it has no business to be making. It should let scientists do the science, politicians have no place here.
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If the only goals are Resveratrol and antioxidents (or is it an antioxidant itself?) then things like pomegranites and just grapes are better than red wine. But there are benefits associated with the alcohol itself that those lack.
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@scottalanmiller said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
If the only goals are Resveratrol and antioxidents (or is it an antioxidant itself?) then things like pomegranites and just grapes are better than red wine. But there are benefits associated with the alcohol itself that those lack.
Then, where is your scientific proof that alcohol itself is good. Meaning, not consumed with something that is good such as grapes for example, altering things.
There would need to be a study done with pure alcohol. Not something bad plus something to cover it up, or show benefits while not looking for the potential bad.
Example, with wine they may see the benefits caused by the grapes, but miss the altered DNA or brain issues caused by alcohol. Or mix the benefits of wine with effects of alcohol.
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If someone asks you how to be healthy, would you seriously refer them to alcohol above the thousands of better choices?
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@tim_g said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:
If someone asks you how to be healthy, would you seriously refer them to alcohol above the thousands of better choices?
ABOVE other choices, perhaps not. In addition to them, certainly!
