Maybe alcoholic beverages are unhealthy?

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Maybe alcoholic beverages are unhealthy?

Grats on the "No shit, Sherlock" statement of the week.

Actually, that reward are belong to:

Maybe alcoholic beverages are unhealthy?

I do agree about there being some consistency needed between how the two substances are treated legally, though.

[Murphie]

Re: Maybe alcoholic beverages are unhealthy?

First, to address the OP, alcohol, in any form, is fine in moderation. I drink, beer, wine, and liquor, but only in small doses (well at least, usually). I have actually become a bit of a beer snob, due to a few years of being with someone who taught me a lot about micro brews and taught me to appreciate a well-crafted beer. Wine isn't real
ly my thing, but I do have it on occasion with a nice meal, or as I did tonight, for instance, at a wine tasting that I really enjoyed. Hell, even hard liquor, if used in moderation, can be enjoyable. But that "in moderation" thing is really key. Stupid people will do stupid things. Alcohol just increases the odds.

I do smoke at the moment, though I am weaning myself off of them. I fully support higher taxes on them, and I think laws prohibiting where one can smoke are just fine. They are terrible in so many ways. But making them illegal won't help things.

[Jarre]

Re: Maybe alcoholic beverages are unhealthy?

In the Uk we are taxed on Alcahol, Fags and now their looking at implimenting a sugar / fat tax to make confectionary / fatty foods more expensive to try and ween the kids off them due to our ever growing obesity problem in the UK. The tax from the food is to go into food education, healthier meals being served in schools, farming subsidaries and the NHS.

To give you an idea, a packet of 20 fags now costs £6.30 = $9.79
A standard 30g chocolate bar costs £0.50 = $0.77
A pint of beer in a bar costs £2.40 = £4.05 a litre = $6.29

[Empedocles]

Re: Maybe alcoholic beverages are unhealthy?

What? How so? Maybe if you supplement the hell out of it but then there will be almost no beer. There is some research that shows it is of some aid to your cardiovascular system and the prevention of dementia but both of those are with low intake of alcohol in general, and low as in maybe 1-4 drinks a week. In fact, exceeding that shows to have quite the opposite effect with cardiovascular disease. It has also been linked to breast cancer in women. And with all of this it was all correlation, not causation.

Its like all that talk about red wine being great for your heart. Yeah, it has some things in it that are good for your heart, but its even better to get it from nonalcoholic grape juice.

Hi. This is the rest of my post:

The problem lies in 2 areas:
1) Mass-produced beer often has other products in it that aren't necessary for the actual brewing and because it's mass-produced, often uses a lower quality of ingredients.
2) People consume too much of it at one time. It doesn't matter what it is, if you have too much of it, you die.

The problem isn't alcohol, or alcoholic beverages, it's people and their control (or lack) of themselves.

Did you read it? Here are a few links from the first page of a google search of: 'Healthy Beer'

Beer Nutrition - Beer Can Be Healthy - Healthy Beer Nutrition
Eight Healthy Reasons To Drink Beer - Forbes.com
Healthy Beer Drinking - AskMen.com Australia
Healthy Beer : Men's Health
Health benefits of Beer

There are others, but you should get the point by now. Yes, alcohol can be linked to breast cancer, if the women drinks 2-4 glasses per day... this is a great deal more than '1-4' per week. Thusly, my second point.

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