[lbo-talk] drink!

Steve Palmer spalmer999 at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 31 09:10:27 PDT 2010


Guiness used to be available on the National Health Service to seniors with digestive difficulties, because of its nutritional value ...

--- On Mon, 8/30/10, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Seven years earlier, in 1993, a study of 12,000
> middle-aged, male doctors led by Sir Richard Doll and a team
> at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, found that the lowest
> mortality rates – lower even than teetotallers – were
> among those drinking between 20 and 30 units of alcohol each
> week.The level of drinking that produced the same risk of
> death as that faced by a teetotaller was 63 units a week, or
> roughly a bottle of wine a day.



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