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Cooper Center Study on Fitness, Alcohol and longevity
Aging Well | Last Active: Oct 25, 2022 | Replies (13)Comment receiving replies
What is moderation? You'll likely get a different answer from everyone you ask. How many care about how much alcohol is consumed, what's the alcohol content, how many metabolizing enzymes in what's being drank etc.
I guess I don't understand.
So it's all about a persons happiness? If they CHOOSE to be irresponsible and kill nearly 11,000 people and maim another 300,000 every year I suppose it's just a consequence of a drunk's happiness.
Jake
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Leonard, you know that alcoholism (or drugs or gambling etc.) is an addiction....has not too much to do with that person's happiness.
Once the addiction takes hold it is almost impossible to stop. Alcohol (or drugs or gambling etc)at that point is the main focus in life and, unless there is intervention of some kind, will continue either to that person's demise or to a tragic fatality. Trust me, I know what that is like having lived with an alcoholic for far too many years. It has nothing to do with happiness...it is the be all and the end all of one's existence with no thought of consequences. It is difficult to understand the power of any kind of addiction until you either have lived that life or shared that life with someone. Addiction and consequences or responsibility have no relation to each other.
This is not to excuse but to understand.
FL Mary