Drinking alcohol is Lindy.
WHO: No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health
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#22Ethanol is metabolized to acetaldehyde in the body. Acetaldehyde causes DNA damage. https://academic.oup.com/carcin/article/43/1/52/6373372
as do lots of things, many practically unavoidable
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#25Well according to the American Cancer Society, alcoholic beverages are a Group 1 Carcinogen. Right up there with Asbestos, UV radiation, Tobacco smoke, and Diesel exhaust. https://www.cancer.org/healthy/cancer-causes/general-info/kn...
There probably a story somewhere as to why cigarettes get big labels and beer cans don't.
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#26I stopped drinking due to the pandemic. Which was probably good for my health but bad for my social life.
On the other hand, I probably would have developed better social skills, if I didn't start drinking socially earlier in my life.
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#27> To identify a “safe” level of alcohol consumption, valid scientific evidence would need to demonstrate that at and below a certain level, there is no risk of illness or injury associated with alcohol consumption. The new WHO statement clarifies: currently available evidence cannot indicate the existence of a threshold at which the carcinogenic effects of alcohol “switch on” and start to manifest in the human body.…
you don't need the cinnamon, just the toast [studies say]
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#28It would be very useful to rate all sorts of things in terms of the effect on life expectancy so people could make educated decisions. Is one serving of beer/wine better or worse than being say 5kg over weight? Or 2 portions of red meat? Or living next to a main road?
Without the ability to actually measure these numbers and compare them we don't actually know anything. This is data but not information...
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#29Saving you a click: https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...
And this is the Lancet article summarising the research: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2...
The proportion of cancers attributable to alcohol is 4.1% of all cases, from [1]. Of that, the ‘Light to Moderate’ alcohol category (1. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2...
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#30Drinking alcohol is Lindy.
So is the strategy of dying early due to alcohol consumption.