Men Urged to Limit Alcohol to One Drink a Day Amid New Concerns

 There are way too many benefits, especially the social connections which are needed to prevent dementia.  Over the course of a week I maybe get 7 drinks, always in a social context with others, COVID-19 has really cut back on that.

But these.

Men must drink with male friends twice a week to stay healthy, study finds

  And this?

Two alcoholic drinks a day may slow mental decline, study finds

And this?

Low, moderate drinking tied to better cognitive function later in life

But this Spaniard is my hero:

Man Dies Aged 107, Thanked Red Wine For Long Life - 3 liters a day, no water

 

 

If you don't like my cherry picking of positive research on alcohol you can quote these, your doctor will:

Safest level of alcohol consumption is none, worldwide study shows

Alcohol consumption increases risk for PAD, stroke

 

The latest here:

Men now advised to cap alcohol consumption at one drink a day as federal committee rethinks dietary guidelines

 

Men should consume no more than one alcoholic drink a day, according to a federal committee’s recommendations for new U.S. dietary guidelines.

That’s a reduction from the current recommended limit of two drinks a day, and matches the guidance for women. The shift reflects scientists’ evolving thinking on moderate drinking, and comes as a 20-year rise in Americans’ drinking is accelerating during the pandemic.

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Earlier research linked moderate drinking to a lower risk of heart disease. But many health experts now say some of those studies are flawed, and that there’s more and better evidence showing wider health risks of alcohol.

U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services are set to review the recommendations and issue the final guidelines by the year’s end.

“We looked at deaths from cancer, cardiovascular disease, and more than 60 alcohol-related conditions,” says Timothy Naimi, a physician and alcohol researcher at Boston University who served on the federal committee. “Whatever kind of study you look at, two drinks a day is associated with a higher risk of death than drinking one drink a day. In the context of a health document, why would you endorse people drinking up to a level in which mortality increases?”(Because without dementia your quality of life is much higher. Do you ever think things thru completely?)

An expanded version of this report appears at WSJ.com.