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Only 4 in 10? 6 in 10 young adults who drink alcohol never have a beer or glass of wine on a cozy evening in? I would have expected it to be the other way around.
Yeah, wait, what? Thats what this whole report is based around? I fucking crack a beer after a hard day sometimes and just sit on my back porch - thats not problematic behavior!
Yeah, the exact question they're studying is:
And they're comparing the "not at all" responses against all of the other ones. I understand they're analyzing data that already exists, so they don't get to go back in time and start asking a different question in 1977 when the survey begins, but I'm not sure how useful this is to the current analysis without some qualifier like "When you had three or more drinks in one day."
Why not ?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/18/any-amount-of-alcohol-consumption-harmful-to-the-brain-finds-study
Yeah, alcohol is bad for you. I dont think anyone should be surprised by that. So is chocolate cake and pizza and staying up late dancing and being really stressed at work because you are trying to get a promotion. But we do these things anyway because they are part of life. To optimize life away in the name of health is to put the cart before the horse. Your body is generally able to adapt to and heal from the abuse you shovel onto it and continue functioning. There are people who down handles of vodka every day and continue functioning quite normally.
Having a beer or two on your back porch every once in a while is going to have a negligible effect on your physical and mental well being. Like, seriously, if you legitimately think that occasional, moderate consumption of alcohol, done without compulaion and having no obvious negetive effects on one's health, day to day life, or relationships is problematic because a scientific study said "alcohol is bad for you (duh)" - then I think it is worth taking a step back and considering if you are overthinking things.
Being stressed at work is a problem. There are articles about that as well. Generally, most people support employers who cause their employees stress being jailed.
A chocolate cake or pizza is less bad for you than alcohol.
Living is the #1 cause of death
Yeah, sometimes I just want to savor some bourbon with tv. When I'm socializing I feel like a douche for swishing my sip and sniffing my glass. Which to be fair is pretty douchey but it brings out the subtleties
Some people might not consider having one drink "drinking," but, I don't know exactly how this study was conducted.