[lbo-talk] drink!

Alan Rudy alan.rudy at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 11:44:36 PDT 2010


This


>
> Most remarkable is that moderate is defined as an average of 3 shots a
>> day, which seems like quite a healthy amount.
>>
>


> plus this
>


> When the report defined any man who drinks more than 21 units of alcohol a
> week, or woman who consumes more than 14, as a hazardous drinker, the
> authors were relying on limits that have been set in stone for the past 20
> years.
>
> plus THIS


>
> So what is the truth? Clarity is not aided by the fact that different
> countries use different quantities of alcohol to define a unit.
>
> In Britain one unit of alcohol is 8 grams of pure ethanol. In Australia and
> Spain it is 10 grams, in Italy 12, in America 14, and in Japan 19.75.
> Translate the respective countries’ levels into British units and you find
> that, for men, Britain’s supposed safe weekly limit of 21 is more than
> Poland (12.5), but less than Canada (23.75), America (24.5), South Africa
> and Denmark (31.5) and Australia (35).
>

plus this

Some countries say that women should drink less than men, but others,
> including Canada, the Netherlands and Spain, make no distinction.
>
> plus THIS


> Christopher Record, a liver-disease specialist at Newcastle University,
> suggested that “it doesn’t really matter what the limits are”. “What we do
> know is, the more you drink, the greater the risk. The trouble is that we
> all have different genes.Some people can drink considerably more than [the
> limits] and they won’t get into any trouble.”
>
> makes it all sound like an old Bill Cosby routine on Noah: "Yeah, right!
What's a cubit?" plus a bad sociology methods class topped off with a little genetic determinism.

Isn't it simple, if you have a modicum of control over your life you live longer, whatever a modicum is?



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