Drinking 1 beer a day can cut life expectancy by over 2 months: research

[Michie]

Consuming a single alcoholic drink per day can reduce a person’s life expectancy by two-and-a-half months, according to an expert on substance use.

Tim Stockwell, a scientist at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, told The Daily Mail that alcohol cuts down one's life expectancy.

Having a drink a day can lower life expectancy by two-and-a-half months, while having five drinks a day can decrease life expectancy by around two years, and two drinks per week can reduce it by as much as six days.

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“Alcohol is our favorite recreational drug,” Stockwell told the Daily Mail. “We use it for pleasure and relaxation, and the last thing we want to hear is that it causes any harm ... it’s comforting to think that drinking is good for our health, but unfortunately, it’s based on poor science.”

Stated harms of alcoholic consumption include damage to organs like the brain, liver and heart, damage to the nervous system, as well as contributing to heart disease and higher blood pressure.

Regarding studies that indicate non-drinkers suffer from various illnesses that drinkers can avoid, Stockwell told the Daily Mail that this was likely because the non-drinkers surveyed were former alcohol-consumers.

“These abstainers are often older people who gave up alcohol because their health was bad,” he explained. “Being able to drink is a sign you are still healthy, not the cause of being in good health. … There are lots of ways these studies give false results that are misinterpreted to mean alcohol is good for you.”

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Drinking 1 beer a day can cut life expectancy by over 2 months: research

Consuming a single alcoholic drink per day can reduce a person s life expectancy by two and a half months, according to an expert on substance use who is based in Canada

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[timewerx]

I drink 1/7th bottle of beer everyday because I use beer to add flavor to my non alcoholic home-made drinks. I've used red wine before but beer is cheaper and seems to taste better.

I mean yikes! My life expectancy is now 11 days less!!

 

[Bobber]

Consuming a single alcoholic drink per day can reduce a person’s life expectancy by two-and-a-half months, according to an expert on substance use.

Tim Stockwell, a scientist at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, told The Daily Mail that alcohol cuts down one's life expectancy.

Having a drink a day can lower life expectancy by two-and-a-half months, while having five drinks a day can decrease life expectancy by around two years, and two drinks per week can reduce it by as much as six days.

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“Alcohol is our favorite recreational drug,” Stockwell told the Daily Mail. “We use it for pleasure and relaxation, and the last thing we want to hear is that it causes any harm ... it’s comforting to think that drinking is good for our health, but unfortunately, it’s based on poor science.”

Stated harms of alcoholic consumption include damage to organs like the brain, liver and heart, damage to the nervous system, as well as contributing to heart disease and higher blood pressure.

Regarding studies that indicate non-drinkers suffer from various illnesses that drinkers can avoid, Stockwell told the Daily Mail that this was likely because the non-drinkers surveyed were former alcohol-consumers.

“These abstainers are often older people who gave up alcohol because their health was bad,” he explained. “Being able to drink is a sign you are still healthy, not the cause of being in good health. … There are lots of ways these studies give false results that are misinterpreted to mean alcohol is good for you.”

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Drinking 1 beer a day can cut life expectancy by over 2 months: research

Consuming a single alcoholic drink per day can reduce a person s life expectancy by two and a half months, according to an expert on substance use who is based in Canada

www.christianpost.com

I appreciate much of what the article is saying but when you're saying two drinks a week takes your life expectancy down 6 days....6 days of what? Living 80 years? I think that's being a little silly. Basically a good article though.

 

[timewerx]

I appreciate much of what the article is saying but when you're saying two drinks a week takes your life expectancy down 6 days....6 days of what? Living 80 years? I think that's being a little silly. Basically a good article though.

It would be a huge disappointment if you didn't make the age of 80 by only 6 days!

 

[Occams Barber]

It would be a huge disappointment if you didn't make the age of 80 by only 6 days!

I have difficulty imagining a state where I could be, simultaneously, both dead and disappointed.

If such a state could exist, I suspect I would be disappointed to be dead no matter what age I had reached.

OB

 

[Occams Barber]

Consuming a single alcoholic drink per day can reduce a person’s life expectancy by two-and-a-half months, according to an expert on substance use.

Tim Stockwell, a scientist at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, told The Daily Mail that alcohol cuts down one's life expectancy.

Having a drink a day can lower life expectancy by two-and-a-half months, while having five drinks a day can decrease life expectancy by around two years, and two drinks per week can reduce it by as much as six days.

Subscribe
“Alcohol is our favorite recreational drug,” Stockwell told the Daily Mail. “We use it for pleasure and relaxation, and the last thing we want to hear is that it causes any harm ... it’s comforting to think that drinking is good for our health, but unfortunately, it’s based on poor science.”

Stated harms of alcoholic consumption include damage to organs like the brain, liver and heart, damage to the nervous system, as well as contributing to heart disease and higher blood pressure.

Regarding studies that indicate non-drinkers suffer from various illnesses that drinkers can avoid, Stockwell told the Daily Mail that this was likely because the non-drinkers surveyed were former alcohol-consumers.

“These abstainers are often older people who gave up alcohol because their health was bad,” he explained. “Being able to drink is a sign you are still healthy, not the cause of being in good health. … There are lots of ways these studies give false results that are misinterpreted to mean alcohol is good for you.”

Continued below.

Drinking 1 beer a day can cut life expectancy by over 2 months: research

Consuming a single alcoholic drink per day can reduce a person s life expectancy by two and a half months, according to an expert on substance use who is based in Canada

www.christianpost.com

I saw a recent study which suggested that if I were tightly wrapped in cling wrap and kept overnight in the freezer drawer of the fridge, I could extend my life by 25 minutes.

At my age I've started to stockpile cling wrap.

OB

 

[ozso]

Only one beer per day? No problem...

 

[Solo81]

I'd much prefer to have my beers rather than have the extra days, spent in a nursing home wearing diapers.

Quality, not quantity.

 

[Richard T]

Consuming a single alcoholic drink per day can reduce a person’s life expectancy by two-and-a-half months, according to an expert on substance use.

Tim Stockwell, a scientist at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, told The Daily Mail that alcohol cuts down one's life expectancy.

Having a drink a day can lower life expectancy by two-and-a-half months, while having five drinks a day can decrease life expectancy by around two years, and two drinks per week can reduce it by as much as six days.

Subscribe
“Alcohol is our favorite recreational drug,” Stockwell told the Daily Mail. “We use it for pleasure and relaxation, and the last thing we want to hear is that it causes any harm ... it’s comforting to think that drinking is good for our health, but unfortunately, it’s based on poor science.”

Stated harms of alcoholic consumption include damage to organs like the brain, liver and heart, damage to the nervous system, as well as contributing to heart disease and higher blood pressure.

Regarding studies that indicate non-drinkers suffer from various illnesses that drinkers can avoid, Stockwell told the Daily Mail that this was likely because the non-drinkers surveyed were former alcohol-consumers.

“These abstainers are often older people who gave up alcohol because their health was bad,” he explained. “Being able to drink is a sign you are still healthy, not the cause of being in good health. … There are lots of ways these studies give false results that are misinterpreted to mean alcohol is good for you.”

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Drinking 1 beer a day can cut life expectancy by over 2 months: research

Consuming a single alcoholic drink per day can reduce a person s life expectancy by two and a half months, according to an expert on substance use who is based in Canada

www.christianpost.com

Could be the researcher or the research design is flawed. Other studies show otherwise, Here is another perspective. The effects of modest drinking on life expectancy and mortality risks: a population-based cohort study - Scientific Reports