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"because moderate drinkers tend to be very socially advantaged," Naimi says. Moderate drinkers tend to be healthier on average because they're well-educated and more affluent, not because they're drinking a bottle of wine a week on average. "[Their] alcohol consumption ends up looking good from a health perspective because they're already healthy to begin with." https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/22/47…
> Moderate drinkers tend to be healthier on average because they're well-educated and more affluent, not because they're drinking a bottle of wine a week on average the point is that non-drinkers live less. Which totally contraddict the point that non drinking is good for you. a recent Lancet study confirms that at 2 standard units per day there is non-drinking equivalence for health risks 2 units per day it's about…
Re: No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health
#211Both can be true at once, for exactly the reason described: the causal effect goes in the other direction.
