Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds

[Jeremy]

Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds - Yahoo! News

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. (See pictures of booze under a microscope.)

 

[Baruch Menachem]

I should write my will then, but I have no estate.

 

[Oddball]

 

[Si modo]

Good to know

 

[boedicca]

And those of us who are moderate wine drinkers live the longest!

 

[Big Black Dog]

It's because the heavy drinkers run over the lighter drinkers with their cars...

 

[Luissa]

I wonder how many years I added from the time I turned 21 until I was 26? I drank enough for a small army.

 

[Ringel05]

Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds

They had to do a study to find this out??!!!!! Hell I coulda just plopped em down in the desert for a couple of days without water and let em see how long they lasted.
(That reminds me. Time for a another 20 oz.)