Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds
One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don't drink actually tend to die sooner than those who do. The standard Alcoholics Anonymous explanation for this finding is that many of those who show up as abstainers in such research are actually former hard-core drunks who had already incurred health problems associated with drinking.
But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that - for reasons that aren't entirely clear - abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers
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Hmm. It looks like I could live a looooong time...
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I saw this article too, but I don't drink enough to get any benefit from it, so I thought I'd wait for one of those among us to whom it was fitting.
Slange.
That's good news(and I'm talking about Jimbo living a loooooong time)! I'll drink to that!!
Schteveo - It's never too late to drop those good habits.
Datsh y iz bee a hunnert an turdy yearsh oldt shteve-0
Mushroom hunter "massacre" claims 18 lives in Italy
Mon Aug 30, 12:52 pm ET
MILAN (Reuters) – At least 18 mushroom-lovers have been killed in accidents while hunting for their favorite fungi in the mountains and forests of northern Italy.
Mountain rescuers say eager mushroom seekers are abandoning safety procedures as they don camouflage and hunt in darkness to protect coveted troves, la Repubblica newspaper reported on Sunday.
"There is too much carelessness. Too many people don't give a darn about the right rules and unfortunately this is the result," Gino Comelli, head of the Alpine rescue service in northwest Italy's Valle di Fassa, told the newspaper.
Seventeen people have died in nine days -- six in 48 hours alone -- mostly from sliding off steep, damp slopes in the northern mountains, la Repubblica said in a story headlined "the massacre of the mushroom hunters."
Another person has been missing for more than a week, it said.
Ansa news agency said a man who had been hunting mushrooms was found dead on Sunday in the Alpine region of Valtellina.
A combination of August thunderstorms and hot weather has led to a bumper mushroom crop that has drawn the first hunters of what is expected to be a boom season.
(Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
Jimbo,
I gave up excess drinking years ago. I drink a little once in a while now. But the excess thing was way excess. Mostly binges, but a couple of them, and THE last one, lasted 6 months.
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But, now there's something I could indulge in, heavily, MUSHROOMS. But not the Italian, hog hunted kind.
Schteveo...
Mushrooms is Austin's #1 cash crop.
Here's to your health. I'm going to the local "pharmacy" right after work to make sure I have lots of "vitamin water".
Jimbo,
back when I was a young Domonoid Manager, ca 1975 - '76, we used to get a walk in customer a few times per year, who would bring in his OWN mushrooms!! And he looked and acted the part. I'm talking, long hair, John Lennon glasses, tie dye, (wait so far that's ME) and he talked like Tommy Chong. Man.
I've gotta go. Got a guy coming to till my garden. And no, I'm not hemp farming. That's too obvious in the backyard.
(but I got plenty of woods on my small place too, maybe a quarter acre, so...shhhh)
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