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Don’t believe studies that claim moderate drinking is good for you, new study urges
By Tracy Swartz,
17 hours ago
The French correction?
The long-held notion that the cheese- and butter-lovin’ French enjoy relatively low rates of heart disease because they drink red wine is misguided, new research proclaims , as are the studies that suggest moderate drinking leads to a longer, healthier life.
“There is simply no completely ‘safe’ level of drinking,” insists lead researcher Tim Stockwell, a scientist with the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research at the University of Victoria.
“There is simply no completely ‘safe’ level of drinking,” says lead researcher Tim Stockwell, a scientist with the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research at the University of Victoria. Adobe Stock
Stockwell and his buzzkill team assessed 107 published studies that explored the link between drinking habits and longevity .
When they combined the data, it seemed like people who consumed up to two drinks a day had a 14% lower risk of dying during the study period compared to teetotalers.
Upon further review, the researchers realized the studies tended to focus on older adults and failed to distinguish between lifelong abstainers and former drinkers who quit or reduced their boozin’ because they developed health problems.
He is not the first researcher to pooh-pooh the “French Paradox” — a term that dates back to the 1980s.
Dr. Kenneth Mukamal , an internist at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, said in 2020 that the French-fueled argument that red wine is good for your heart is pretty weak.
Mukamal pointed out that Japan boasts lower heart disease rates than France even as the Japanese prefer beer and sake to red wine. French doctors were also accused of underreporting coronary deaths .
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