

Drinking Alcohol May Extend Your Life 548
Adolytsi writes "MSNBC has an interesting article on an Italian study on alcoholism. While the obvious notion of overconsumption of alcohol being detrimental to one's health is supported, apparently drinking it in moderation can actually extend your lifespan. A study on over 1 million drinkers and 94,000 deaths yielded the results: "According to the data, drinking a moderate amount of alcohol — up to four drinks per day in men and two drinks per day in women — reduces the risk of death from any cause by roughly 18 percent, the team reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
However, "things radically change" when consumption goes beyond these levels, study leader Dr. Augusto Di Castelnuovo, from Catholic University of Campobasso, said in a statement. Men who have more than four drinks per day and women who have more than two drinks per day not only lose the protection that alcohol affords, but they increase their risk of death, the data indicates.""
Things radically change (Score:5, Funny)
For starters, you wake up in bed with a stranger not knowing how either got there...
The things i do (Score:5, Funny)
Makes me happy (Score:3, Funny)
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I guess it makes sense too, first you have sex, got (someone) pregnant, then you drink and smoke to numb your pain in making such a stupid mistake, and finally at 21, you resort to gambling to satisfy the needs for cigaratte, alcohol and your kid's school fees.
Re:Define "drink" (Score:5, Funny)
Reduce chance of death? (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:military & drinking (Score:5, Funny)
Fair enough. In the Philippines, American soldiers do not check the age of Philippino girls...
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Obligatory Simpsons quote (Score:5, Funny)
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Offtopic, but amusing (Score:5, Funny)
Three hours later I was standing in the hall with no shirt, after being thrown out of my own room by a still-drunk girl who was convinced that I'd sneaked into her room in the night! One of my floormates called campus security (probably for their own amusement), and the whole thing ended up being written up (in garbled form) as a security report in the campus paper.
Not only did I not get breakfast, poor girl was so humiliated by the whole incident that she avoided me until I transferred 18 months later.
I think the moral is either: Don't drink the punch, or Let sleeping geeks lie.
Re:waste of a study (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Legal age (Score:2, Funny)
'The United States of America' and 'civilized world' are mutually exclusive.
Re:Offtopic, but amusing (Score:3, Funny)
And, likely, a bucket.
Re:Things radically change (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Legal age (Score:5, Funny)
and the bartender said "Whoa, whoa, whoa. You gotta show some id to prove you're 21, and you can't all use the same one!"
Re:Define "drink" (Score:5, Funny)
btw, when I start to see 2 slashdot homepages on my screen at the same time, thats when my body tells me I have the perfect amount of alcohol.
Collegiate Behavior... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Four drinks a day? (Score:4, Funny)
But if it's a work day, you don't have very much time to get all those drinks down.
Wait, you don't drink at work? Insane. Our office manager picked up a couple cases of microbrew just today and stuck them in the fridge for us. We used to have to stock the fridge ourselves at my last employer. Man I love the computer industry.
Re:Define "drink" (Score:5, Funny)
I always thought this was bizarre. A 12 oz beer just does not look right in a pint glass. It's like hot dogs coming 6 to a pack and buns 8 to a pack. Madness.
Re:Riddle me this... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Latecomers to the H2G2 party killing all jokes (Score:3, Funny)
Too late.
*ducks*
Re:Define "drink" (Score:5, Funny)
Either that or you finally got xinerama working.
Re:Define "drink" (Score:5, Funny)
Right. So it's technically correct to take a sip of 12 year old single malt and say, 'That's good shit.'
Re:Define "drink" (Score:4, Funny)
If you want obscure, my calculations say that the limit comes out to about one third of a firkin of ale per fortnight.
Cheers!
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