Study finds drinking excess alcohol can take years off your life

HAL9000 · April 2018

No shit Sherlock

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43738644

More seriously though, I've seen the way old age and what comes with it has affected my parents and their quality of life. Easy to say now while I'm younger but I do think that losing a few months or years at that end of my life would be a price worth paying for having a few beers now. My dad died at 91 after six months of cancer. My mum is 90 now and is currently in a nursing home. TBH I'd rather check out before reaching that stage so any advice to cut out the booze will fall on deaf ears.

interstellar · April 2018

problem with that argument is the same stuff may well happen to you, but due to bad lifestyle it comes earlier, you takes your choices.

proggy · April 2018

I'll drink to that.

WezV · April 2018

What? It’s always been sold to me as a healthy option. I feel I should sue the advertisers for their dishonesty.

Flink_Poyd · April 2018

And a study next month will say it benefits you in some way.

Red wine in moderate amounts is beneficial. Drinking red wine increases your chance of a heart attack by x%
Milk is good for you. Milk is bad for you.
Bread cures bumache. Bread gives you spots.

These studies just end up being contradicted most of the time.

thecolourbox · April 2018

Death also takes years off your life but we all do it anyway

VimFuego · April 2018

1st it was smokes, then it was the bacon and now it's the booze, at this rate I'll have nothing left for breakfast.

thecolourbox · April 2018

Define "excess"

Fretwired · April 2018

Based on their figures I died 5 years ago .. :-)

The research is flawed ...

Danny1969 · April 2018

Fretwired said:

Based on their figures I died 5 years ago .. :-)

The research is flawed ...

Lol, and I died 15 years ago

Phil_aka_Pip · April 2018

Time off for good behaviour.

Who wants to end up in a council-run gulag with a catheter up your willy dribbling in front of daytime TV?

If having a few more drinks will avoid that then (i) I benefit (ii) society benefits by not having to pay for the council-run gulag

Fretwired · April 2018

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Time off for good behaviour.

Who wants to end up in a council-run gulag with a catheter up your willy dribbling in front of daytime TV?

If having a few more drinks will avoid that then (i) I benefit (ii) society benefits by not having to pay for the council-run gulag

Call me cynical but I bet duty on alcohol will be going up ..

randella · April 2018

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Who wants to end up in a council-run gulag with a catheter up your willy dribbling in front of daytime TV?

Dunno.

Does it get me out of next Wednesday’s project catch-up with HR?

mattdavis · April 2018

Another study from the Journal of the Bleeding Obvious. I do sometimes think a lot of these studies add very little to the knowledge base. I’m sure some people would love to work out the exact amount it’s ok to drink before it’s bad for you - but I can think of a few more pressing medical issues that need clarifying first.

Flink_Poyd · April 2018

mattdavis said:

Another study from the Journal of the Bleeding Obvious. I do sometimes think a lot of these studies add very little to the knowledge base. I’m sure some people would love to work out the exact amount it’s ok to drink before it’s bad for you - but I can think of a few more pressing medical issues that need clarifying first.

You have to drink enough to pay a large amount of tax to the government while dying quick enough not to need any treatment

Bellycaster · April 2018

Studies show that constantly "tuning in" for the next media update on what is good and bad for you could reduce you to a dribbling, neurotic, nervous wreck much earlier than if you just fucking ignored it!

Step away from the Television.....away from the Newspaper etc etc blah blah bollocks.