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[redthrowaway]

I find it weird that >15 drinks a week is 80%ile, given that that's a pretty standard moderate level of drinking in many parts of the world and is significantly healthier than not drinking at all.

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/truth-wo...

[bagels → redthrowaway]

That study defines "moderate" as 1-2 drinks a day, if you look at the chart in the article you linked, >6 drinks per day had higher mortality rate.

[redthrowaway → bagels]

It's >15 drinks per week, not per day. Let's call that 3/day, which is significantly better for your health than not drinking at all.

[a8da6b0c91d → redthrowaway]

IQ and alcohol consumption are highly correlated. IQ and health & longevity and highly correlated. I think even a lot of alcohol in the context of a good diet is benign, but I'm skeptical about the health benefit claims. I think they're just not properly controlling for other factors like intelligence. Somebody needs to run the data controlling for IQ.