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Moderate Drinking Has No Health Benefits, Analysis of Decades of Research Finds

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> The review found that the risks of dying prematurely increase significantly for women once they drink 25 grams of alcohol a day, which is less than two standard cocktails containing 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits, two 12-ounce beers or two 5-ounce glasses of wine. The risks to men increase significantly at 45 grams of alcohol a day, or just over three drinks.

That's over 2/3 of a bottle of red wine for men (530ml) a day - I would call that far from moderate. The UK recommendation is to drink less than twice that a week!

https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/drink-less/

I got a lot more confused now: does an entire bottle of wine really only contain 5 drinks?

Depends on how big your glass is! A 12% bottle of wine contains 71g of alcohol. So if 3 of their drinks is 45g it contains just 4.73 - 160ml a glass.

> The conversion formula is % vol x 7.894 = grams of alcohol per litre (g/l) of wine. At 12% vol, this gives 94.7 g/l. In a 0.75 litre bottle of wine, this is 71 g of pure alcohol. An eighth of wine contains approximately the same amount of grams of alcohol as it has percent by volume

https://glossary.wein.plus/alcohol-content

I was surprised. A standard US drink is 14g, so there is almost exactly 5 drinks in a bottle of wine.

Does not surprise me much . Liquors have a strong, off-putting taste, which is why they are often mixed. how can this possibly be good for you? It's almost as if the taste alone is a warning to not drink it.

It be not the taste, but the icy chill of carbonized acid. Sparkling water is a good substitute for me.

Lots of things in concentration taste bad/offensive on their own, like salt or vinegar but great mixed with other things, so I don't think this is unique to alcohol. Things with lower alcohol level like beer and wine can taste great where alcohol is just one component.

https://archive.is/yDZqR

Drinking neurotoxin is not good for you? *surprised Pikachu*!

Oh no!

Anyway …

What about a weekly drinking contest

Why link to a tabloid behind a paywall instead of the published research? https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

The New York Times? A Tabloid?

I was surprised to find out people in the UK use tabloid to refer to real news publishers (albeit more dumbed down than Financial Times or the like), and not just the supermarket tabloids in the US that talk about aliens or fake celebrity gossip.

Its the format of the paper, the big ones are called broadsheets and considered intellectual, the small ones tabloid and are not. Kind of looses it as most are in the smaller format now

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