Drinking alcohol may lengthen your life

[Siege]

Want to live longer? Toss back a few cocktails Alcohol in moderation may extend life span, researchers find

[/t][/t] Drinking a moderate amount of alcohol — up to four drinks per day in men and two drinks per day in women — reduces the risk of death from any cause by roughly 18 percent, researchers have found. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images file getCSS("3053751")   getCSS("3053751")         Most popular • Most viewed • Top rated[/t][/t] • Most e-mailed[/t][/t]   Deadly blasts hit 2 hotels in Indonesia Ex-Colo. revenue worker says she stole for love Jumbo squid spook divers off San Diego Obama: 'Pain of discrimination' persists Sotomayor speeds toward confirmation Most viewed on msnbc.com   'Miracle' girl's heart heals itself after transplant Shuttle lifts off at last after five delays Concerns growing over superbugs in our food Sheriff: Up to 8 involved in Fla. couple's slaying Police: Fla. suspects didn't expect cameras Most viewed on msnbc.com   Obama: 'Pain of discrimination' persists Jumbo squid spook divers off San Diego Deadly blasts hit 2 hotels in Indonesia Beef up your barbecue with Texas-style brisket Ambush! From feathered hair to fab style Most viewed on msnbc.com if (pop_tabBoxes) pop_pushTabBox('boxB_3053751');               var tcdacmd="dt";         updated 6:43 p.m. ET, Tues., Dec . 12, 2006        function UpdateTimeStamp(pdt) {          var n = document.getElementById("udtD");          if(pdt != '' && n && window.DateTime) {             var dt = new DateTime();             pdt = dt.T2D(pdt);             if(dt.GetTZ(pdt)) {n.innerHTML = dt.D2S(pdt,((''.toLowerCase()=='false')?false:true));}          }       }       UpdateTimeStamp('633015637858500000');   Moderate drinking may lengthen your life, while too much may shorten it, researchers from Italy report. Their conclusion is based on pooled data from 34 large studies involving more than 1 million people and 94,000 deaths. According to the data, drinking a moderate amount of alcohol — up to four drinks per day in men and two drinks per day in women — reduces the risk of death from any cause by roughly 18 percent, the team reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine. However, "things radically change" when consumption goes beyond these levels, study leader Dr. Augusto Di Castelnuovo, from Catholic University of Campobasso, said in a statement.  Story continues below ↓  advertisement | your ad here   dap('&PG=NBCMSH&AP=1089','300','250');    Men who have more than four drinks per day and women who have more than two drinks per day not only lose the protection that alcohol affords, but they increase their risk of death, the data indicate. The reason why men are protected at up to four drinks per day, while women lose the protection after two glasses has to do with how men and women metabolize alcohol, researchers say. It's been shown that when men and women who drink the same amount of alcohol, women experience higher blood alcohol levels than men. Therefore, women who consume more than two glasses of alcohol per day may be at increased risk for diseases of the liver and certain types of cancer. "Our findings, while confirming the hazards of excess drinking, indicate potential windows of alcohol intake that may confer a net beneficial effect of moderate drinking, at least in terms of survival," the Italian team concludes.    Click for related content    Vote: How much do you drink?  Bottoms up can lead to bottom spread  Big doses of red wine could be good for you "Heavy drinkers should be urged to cut their consumption, but people who already regularly consume low to moderate amounts of alcohol should be encouraged to continue," they add. The manner in which alcohol is consumed also appears to be important, the researchers report. "Little amounts, preferably during meals, this appears to be the right way (to drink alcohol)," said Dr. Giovanni de Gaetano of Catholic University, another author on the study. "This is another feature of the Mediterranean diet, where alcohol, wine above all, is the ideal partner of a dinner or lunch, but that's all: the rest of the day must be absolutely alcohol-free." "The message carried by scientific studies like ours is simple," Dr. de Gaetano continued. "Alcohol can be a respectful guest on our table, but it is good just when it goes with a healthy lifestyle, where moderation leads us toward a consumption inspired by quality not by quantity."[/hr][/hr]

[Tonitrus]

Worst copy/paste of an article ever.

[Jaron]

Wow. Fail

[The Brain]

FAIL

On-topic: that moderate drinking is good for you isn't exactly news.

[Jaron]

It is for Siege. They don't usually discuss alcohol on Disney channel and Nick jr.

[derspiess]

Worst copy/paste of an article ever.

  It's almost like he was trying to make it as bad as possible.  Or he was just drunk off his ass...

[DisturbedPervert]

Deadly blasts hit 2 hotels in Indonesia

Oh god I hope I'll be ok.

[The Brain]

Deadly blasts hit 2 hotels in Indonesia

Oh god I hope I'll be ok.

[Siege]

3 Doors Down - Here Without Yuo (miltary version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMKxerelXqM

[Syt]

Siege is devolving into a Tim without the redeeming skills and features.

[Siege]

Siege is devolving into a Tim without the redeeming skills and features.

Its Tim a soldier?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjUmdx4iwVI&NR=1

[Syt]

Siege is devolving into a Tim without the redeeming skills and features.

Its Tim a soldier?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjUmdx4iwVI&NR=1

He's fighting the war against ignorance (and orthography) on the front that matters most: America's children.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Siege is devolving into a Tim without the redeeming skills and features.

Its Tim a soldier?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjUmdx4iwVI&NR=1

He's fighting the war against ignorance (and orthography) on the front that matters most: America's children.

that's the Somme Offensive of the educational world 

[Siege]

This thread is stupid.

[Norgy]

Drinking alcohol may lengthen your life. But for anyone worth his salt who loves alcohol, lengthening a life consisting of paying more and more in indirect taxes to reach an acceptable level of intoxication is not a good thing. Also, drinking alcohol while driving may considerably shorten someone else's life. So I am not sure whether it is a win overall.

And, anything can be good in moderation. One and a half decade ago, I cut out an article about researchers finding that smoking actually prevents Parkinson's disease. I have kept this, and when emphysema strikes, I'll read it and comfort myself that at least I won't get Parkinson's.