Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds - Yahoo! News
alcohol consumption
has been the consistent finding that those who don't drink actually
tend to die sooner than those who do. The standard Alcoholics Anonymous
explanation for this finding is that many of those who show up as
abstainers in such research are actually former hard-core drunks who had
already incurred health problems associated with drinking.
But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
suggests that - for reasons that aren't entirely clear - abstaining
from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even
when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers'
mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers. (See pictures of booze under a microscope.)
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Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds - Yahoo! News
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