Random Thoughts Thread

[Viking]

Other researchers have now explored this ‘misclassification hypothesis’ more closely, including a huge UK-based population study published this year.

It showed that when you simply compare alcohol consumption and health outcomes, you find a clear beneficial effect of moderate alcohol consumption. But if you take former drinkers out of the abstainers group, then the benefits don’t look so rosy – in fact, they all but disappear.

Meanwhile, another team of researchers studied people whose bodies cannot process alcohol properly – and therefore who generally don’t drink alcohol at all – and found those with this genetic marker had better cardiovascular health and a lower risk of coronary heart disease than those without it.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2015...ly-bad-for-you

Hah! Causation and correlation, suckers.