The drink-moderately-for-long-life prescript is making the rounds again with a new study showing the relationship is not explained by health status, social behaviors, or demographic variables:
even after adjusting for all covariates, abstainers and heavy drinkers continued to show increased mortality risks of 51 and 45%, respectively, compared to moderate drinkers.
This still doesn’t resolve weather moderate drinking is the cause or just a symptom of some other individual difference (intelligence, personality, covitality) that influences survival (Deary et al).
On this business, last night I had the most singular Imperial Double Extra Stout. The reviewers complaining about it probably didn’t drink it with a meal.
- via Robin Hanson
- Further inspiration, if you need any.
- Holahan et al. Late-Life Alcohol Consumption and 20-Year Mortality. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2010.01286.x
- Deary et al. More intelligent, more dependable children live longer: a 55-year longitudinal study of a representative sample of the Scottish nation. Psychol Sci (2008) vol. 19 (9) pp. 874-80
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