The Giving Up/ Cutting Down alcohol support thread - number 13

BHB

21/31 Please Shaggy..... Keep up the good work

debjay

And me 21/31 for tonight please. Well done everyone :T Keep going, nearly there but then don't be tempted to binge drink once the month is up as apparently that's worse than moderating your intake all year.

Barny1979

15/28 AFDs today

Honey_Bear

21/31 please, Shaggy.

stoplurking

16/18 please Shaggy, and thanks for the second little cheerleader. Really hope to make the target soon, have done better than I expected. Keep up the good work everyone.

BlueDaisy

17/27 for me please

PennySaving

19/30 please.

shaggydoo

Morning :hello:

1 more AFD for yesterday.



Shaggyx

shaggydoo

January:

= 7 Days AF

= 14 days AF

= 21 days AF

= 28 days AF

= 31 days AF

= target achieved



AlexLK 16/21

BaileysSoNice /10
Barny1979 15/28
BHB 21/31
BlueDaisy 17/27
BlueViolet 14/20
Chardonnay 12/19
DebJay 21/31
DoshWaster 14/25
Ellsbel 21/31
FakePlasticTwee 12/29
Fruball 13/23
Gien 9/25
GrassGirl 20/31
GrumpyOldGal 11/26
Helena 9/31
Honey Bear 21/31
Joanne109 16/30

Judi24 4/20

LavenderBees /31

Mackeroo 3/10
Maman 8/10
MotherOfTheWorld 18/31
MummyTo3Boys 8/20
PennySaving 19/30
Pippi 7/31
Pricey 7/20
Satchmo 21/31
Shaggy 15/17
SukeyBoo 9/12
StopLurking 16/18
WBF 7/14



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Spiv_2

debjay wrote: »

Keep going, nearly there but then don't be tempted to binge drink once the month is up as apparently that's worse than moderating your intake all year.

In fact, the evidence would suggest that abstaining from alcohol is bad for you.

Why Do Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers?

One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don't drink tend to die sooner than those who do

The standard Alcoholics Anonymous explanation for this finding is that many of those who show up as abstainers in such research are actually former hard-core drunks who had already incurred health problems associated with drinking.
But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that — for reasons that aren't entirely clear — abstaining from alcohol does tend to increase one's risk of dying, even when you exclude former problem drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers.
Moderate drinking, which is defined as one to three drinks per day, is associated with the lowest mortality rates in alcohol studies. Moderate alcohol use (especially when the beverage of choice is red wine) is thought to improve heart health, circulation and sociability, which can be important because people who are isolated don't have as many family members and friends who can notice and help treat health problems.
But why would abstaining from alcohol lead to a shorter life? It's true that those who abstain from alcohol tend to be from lower socioeconomic classes, since drinking can be expensive. And people of lower socioeconomic status have more life stressors — job and child-care worries that might not only keep them from the bottle but also cause stress-related illnesses over long periods. (They also don't get the stress-reducing benefits of a drink or two after work.)
But even after controlling for nearly all imaginable variables — socioeconomic status, level of physical activity, number of close friends, quality of social support and so on — the researchers (a six-member team led by psychologist Charles Holahan of the University of Texas at Austin) found that over a 20-year period, mortality rates were highest for those who were not current drinkers, regardless of whether they used to be alcoholics, second highest for heavy drinkers and lowest for moderate drinkers.

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2017200,00.html



Another good article here if you're interested

The benefits of boozing: Why are we obsessed with the health effects of alcohol?

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/the-benefits-of-boozing-why-are-we-obsessed-with-the-health-effects-of-alcohol-9991287.html




Not trying to encourage people to drink.... but the health effects of alcohol aren't that well understood.