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No alcohol safe to drink, global study confirms
A large new global study published in the Lancet has confirmed previous research which has shown that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption. The researchers admit moderate drinking may protect against heart disease but found that the risk of cancer and other diseases outweighs these protections. A study author said its findings were the most significant to date because of the range of factors considered.
The Global Burden of Disease [open, DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31310-2] [DX] study looked at levels of alcohol use and its health effects in 195 countries, including the UK, between 1990 and 2016.
Analysing data from 15 to 95-year-olds, the researchers compared people who did not drink at all with those who had one alcoholic drink a day. They found that out of 100,000 non-drinkers, 914 would develop an alcohol-related health problem such as cancer or suffer an injury. But an extra four people would be affected if they drank one alcoholic drink a day. For people who had two alcoholic drinks a day, 63 more developed a condition within a year and for those who consumed five drinks every day, there was an increase of 338 people, who developed a health problem.
One of the study authors, Prof Sonia Saxena, a researcher at Imperial College London and a practising GP, said: "One drink a day does represent a small increased risk, but adjust that to the UK population as a whole and it represents a far bigger number, and most people are not drinking just one drink a day."
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(Score: 2, Disagree) by takyon on Sunday August 26 2018, @12:06AM
IPAs, ales, stouts, etc. typically taste good to me, label snobbery or not, and there is a much greater variety of craft beers than wines. I couldn't care about the bitterness... I can drink coffee black just fine and enjoy it, maybe because of drinking IPAs, IDK. Wines pretty much taste the same to me. Is innovation happening on the wine side? Pink moscato, rosé, and mud-looking chocolate wine come to mind.
Wine should be in the ballpark of $3/750ml before tax, $5-8 if you can't be arsed to find a deal. Compare a random $10-20/750ml (expensive) beer to the equivalent priced wine, and the beer should win out 95% of the time (the losses represent true snobbery, like recipes using a combo of ancient grains, habaneros, and rocky mountain oysters).
My trucker friend once worked at a company that relabeled wine to mark it up. That's what people are paying for, a label. The $5 wine becomes a $25 wine, and nobody notices the difference. Try disguising a Budweiser as $craft_beer. Unlikely to work.
Your Gallo seems like a fair choice, although a cold and refreshing Steel Reserve should beat it on alcohol units per dollar, and cans are more convenient.
On that note, have you seen the canned wine? That could be a great way to make it cheaper and more convenient, better than boxed wine even, but I've only seen Underwood [totalwine.com] in stores which sells for $6/375ml.
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