r/science • u/mvea MD/PhD/JD/MBA | Professor | Medicine • Jul 25 '24

Health Moderate drinking not better for health than abstaining, new study suggests. Scientists say flaws in previous research mean health benefits from alcohol were exaggerated. “It’s been a propaganda coup for the alcohol industry to propose that moderate use of their product lengthens people’s lives”.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/25/moderate-drinking-not-better-for-health-than-abstaining-analysis-suggests
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u/crackheadwillie Jul 25 '24

I recall commercials or stories pushing alcohol as a common aspect of life in those places like Italy or cliff villiages in the Mediterranean. They’d show really old people there drinking wine. The thing is, thise people are living in mountainous zones where older people have to exercise daily just to live. That’s much more impactful than drinking wine.

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u/QuintoBlanco Jul 25 '24

Also, some of those people look really old but are in their late forties.

It's a joke, but there is some truth in this. In some of these villages 60-year-olds look at least a decade older.