I find publishing article touting how good moderate consumption of alcohol is somehow good for the health outright irresponsible when a direct link to cancer is more than proven:...
I find publishing article touting how good moderate consumption of alcohol is somehow good for the health outright irresponsible when a direct link to cancer is more than proven: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/alcohol-and-cancer/does-alcohol-cause-cancer
It even admits at the end that alcohol is responsible for 30 thousand deaths anally in the UK while absolving moderate beer from this fact without any kind of proof.
Note that the posted article was dated 30 November 1996. In the last generation we've come a long way in understanding the dangers of alcohol. Agreed that reposting it now without commentary is...
Note that the posted article was dated 30 November 1996. In the last generation we've come a long way in understanding the dangers of alcohol. Agreed that reposting it now without commentary is somewhere between irresponsible and dangerous.
Thanks for pointing out the article date. I’ve added it to the title since I think it’s a rather important bit of information about an article such as this due to it making potentially outdated...
Thanks for pointing out the article date. I’ve added it to the title since I think it’s a rather important bit of information about an article such as this due to it making potentially outdated health claims, and Tildes metadata scraper also having failed to properly capture it for some unknown reason.
I've just accepted that damn near everything pleasurable in life is bad for you in one way or another. I'd rather die a bit younger having lived life, rather than spending my years trying to...
I've just accepted that damn near everything pleasurable in life is bad for you in one way or another.
I'd rather die a bit younger having lived life, rather than spending my years trying to escape death.
I think it's more likely the long-term effects are fairly marginal (well, ethanol is exclusively bad, but people very rarely drink ethanol in isolation), which results in studies with weak and...
I think it's more likely the long-term effects are fairly marginal (well, ethanol is exclusively bad, but people very rarely drink ethanol in isolation), which results in studies with weak and often-conflicting conclusions, and the media's need for "scoops" results in wild overreporting of those conclusions.
I'm sure hedonism (and anti-hedonism, of which there is also a deep streak in US culture) plays a role as well, creating demand for those news stories, but I question whether it drives it.
I find publishing article touting how good moderate consumption of alcohol is somehow good for the health outright irresponsible when a direct link to cancer is more than proven: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/alcohol-and-cancer/does-alcohol-cause-cancer
It even admits at the end that alcohol is responsible for 30 thousand deaths anally in the UK while absolving moderate beer from this fact without any kind of proof.
Note that the posted article was dated 30 November 1996. In the last generation we've come a long way in understanding the dangers of alcohol. Agreed that reposting it now without commentary is somewhere between irresponsible and dangerous.
Thanks for pointing out the article date. I’ve added it to the title since I think it’s a rather important bit of information about an article such as this due to it making potentially outdated health claims, and Tildes metadata scraper also having failed to properly capture it for some unknown reason.
I feel like alcohol (in moderation) and coffee swing back and forth in the media as being both good and bad for you. I wonder why this is.
Probably because some people really want it to be good for you, when it actually isn't.
I've just accepted that damn near everything pleasurable in life is bad for you in one way or another.
I'd rather die a bit younger having lived life, rather than spending my years trying to escape death.
Totally, and I'm with you on enjoying life. But we don't need to lie to people about whether it's good for your body or not.
I think it's more likely the long-term effects are fairly marginal (well, ethanol is exclusively bad, but people very rarely drink ethanol in isolation), which results in studies with weak and often-conflicting conclusions, and the media's need for "scoops" results in wild overreporting of those conclusions.
I'm sure hedonism (and anti-hedonism, of which there is also a deep streak in US culture) plays a role as well, creating demand for those news stories, but I question whether it drives it.