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This stuff makes the rounds every few months. Guess it was a slow day and they had to run it again.

Archive: https://archive.today/JS0Sm

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>About a year ago, a friend of mine started evading my invitations to grab a drink. It was only when we caught up for a walk that she explained she wasn’t putting me off for any personal reason — it was just that she had stopped drinking. She wasn’t a heavy drinker — she had a glass of wine with dinner, the occasional Aperol spritz — but she’d been hearing on podcasts and reading in the news that even a small amount of alcohol was much worse for her health than had previously been understood.

This stuff makes the rounds every few months. Guess it was a slow day and they had to run it again. Archive: https://archive.today/JS0Sm From the post: >>About a year ago, a friend of mine started evading my invitations to grab a drink. It was only when we caught up for a walk that she explained she wasn’t putting me off for any personal reason — it was just that she had stopped drinking. She wasn’t a heavy drinker — she had a glass of wine with dinner, the occasional Aperol spritz — but she’d been hearing on podcasts and reading in the news that even a small amount of alcohol was much worse for her health than had previously been understood.

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Does the physical outweigh the mental? For millenia alcohol has been used as a relaxant. After a day's hard work, a beer hits the spot. Everything can be overdone. It's about freedom yeah? If someone drinks themselves into the grave that's their choice. Cheers from the sticks.

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Who knows. That is a really hard study to do. For some people a cold ice tea at the end of the day is that relaxing hit. For others its a beer or two. I imagine that a lot of it is genetics, some of it is culture.

Also, Beer/Wine played a critical role in humanity existing at all when water purification and sanitization systems were not widely available (or in some cases, even known about). Beer was safer to drink than water but it was very low ABV (same with wine).

In the end. Anything done to excess is probably bad for you. Some things done even in small amounts can kill you. Got to figure out what works for you and also what you are willing to trade off for it.

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JewJuice makes me feel better! Seriously though it's not all bad. I've been drinking since I was 16 and everyone has a vice. Some is booze, some is hard drugs, and some pay $300 a hour to have a woman beat the crap out of them. None of that shit is healthy and it's not meant to be.

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I'm glad I don't drink.