Hello Andrew2310,

The popular phrase Lies, damned lies, and statistics comes to mind, which according to Wikipedia is a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments. It is also sometimes colloquially used to doubt statistics used to prove an opponent's point.

Personally, I do believe that alcohol, taken in moderation, does have beneficial effects on peoples health and as such it may indeed lead to an increased lifespan. There are some cultures where alcohol is not abused so much and people usually do not exceed a right amount as you have described it. However, in many other cultures, moderation quickly gives way to excessive drinking and in these cases, alcohol certainly does not prolong life. From severe physical and mental health problems, road fatalities due to drink driving, family break-up, suicide and many other issues, alcohol is a killer.

If you have a problem with drinking please take an honest look at your life. It is natural for people who have such a problem to look at every means of justifying their drinking and will exhaust all possibilities before finally admitting that their drinking is out of control.

There is a study that says ppl that drink 1-2 drinks a day tend to live longer. The correlation to just a couple and living longer I think has more to do with older ppl that are social and not sad and lonely.

I was drinking 10-12 so I was going to not live as long.

It WAS a reason I hung on to drinking for so long. Th3 justification that I would live longer, the truth is I was dieing at a faster rate when I was in active alcoholism. I was basically digesting my liver with increased liver enzymes. I had three times the normal numbers

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Pretty much every year, studies appear that alcohol has benefits. There are also studies that alcohol is harmful. Most of these studies have research paid for by industries.

Exercise prolongs life too. Instead of two beers, take a mile walk. For normal drinkers, they can rock on. Even when I drank, I wasn't a daily drinker.

Not all studies have been paid for by the "industries". There are many reputable medical and independent studies that have been conducted in the name of health and science, not profit.

Funny, because I just saw an article last week (I'll try to find the link) that said that latest studies (ha ha, I'm sure that will change within a week or 2;) show that moderate drinking does NOT have the health benefits that they originally thought it did. Who knows what they'll say about it tomorrow......

I am willing to be dead sooner sober than dead later drunk and F'ed up again in my life...

I was gonna say but Forrest did it for me. I maybe read the same article. They use to think 2 glasses of wine per day was good for the heart but they have since changed that. Now they are saying that no amount of alcohol will prolong life.

Good luck!

For every so-called expert who states a strong case for one side, there will be another who is just as convincing about the opposite argument. As in many things, common sense is required and a willingness to make up your own mind rather than relying on what others tell you.

I remember the days when the Drink Driving TV add showed an old man in a bar having a couple of pints of beer with his friends and the voice-over said: When youre driving, two will do. To me that was a sensible approach as rural and village life was pub based and there was little or no public transport. Now, the old man in the tweed coat and cloth cap sits at home staring at four walls and pops pills for depression, many of the bars have closed due to a lack of customers and rural villages are dead places. Perhaps they are all victims of political correctness gone crazy.

The studies are all pointless and the "experts" don't really know anything. They just want to pretend that they do. If I listened to everything the so-called experts said, I would never be able to leave my house and I would starve to death because the experts disagree so much on what we should and shouldn't eat. I would be a complete recluse because cell phones and computers can cause cancer and you could die from lightning traveling through the phone lies and blah blah blah. I ignore them. I'll live longer if I don't drink.

I am not sure what the studies say. It is ever changing.

I just know that they are not talking about the way I drank. I tried the "healthy one glass of wine every so often" program and I flunked.

I am much happier drinking homemade smoothies.

Gentle hugs.

If you can stop with one or two, maybe.

But in my case, I could not stop with one, I stopped when I passed out.

In my case with my liver numbers as high as they are, I don't think a drink will prolong my life, it will shorten it.

Thank you for bringing it up.

Who drinks 1 or 2 and why? Lol

Here you go....

This is a study of 87 studies on the subject...

http://www.livescience.com/54115-is-moderate-drinking-good-for-you.html

The fact, that there is so much swing in the conclusions of these studies, indicate that there are many confounding factors complicating the results. These experts (or better call them researchers/authors), do the best they can with the current level of knowledge of science, which does not mean results are definitely credible, but this is how science works (many studies and results, up until a real breakthrough comes along). I DO NOT believe that a glass or two of whine a day will result of any significant increase in my lifespan, likely I will start to drink heavily again and shorten it. A generally healthy lifestyle based on common sense is a good choice to follow: mediterranean diet (without the wine) exercise, learn to menage stress etc.

Thanks everyone for sharing your views. i have got some article which is related to our discussion.. Please do tell me what is your take on that http://www.gnet.org/drinking-alcohol-extends-lifespan/

There are a myriad of other ways of accomplishing the same thing without the risk of addiction and other side effects attributed to alcohol.