New Study Shows That Even Heavy Drinkers Can Outlive Non-Drinkers Shawn Dwyer - The Fix
go to original December 18, 2013

Alcohol Ad Takes a Very Honest Turn - Smoothness (IQInitiativet)

While it might ring contrary to popular belief, a new study published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research has found that people who drink either moderately or even heavily have lower mortality rates than people who completely abstain from alcohol.

Conducted by a team led by Charles Holahan, a psychologist at the University of Texas, the researchers followed 1,824 participants over 20 years between the ages of 55 and 65 years old. While the study group was tilted in favor of men 63% to 37% women, researchers found that over the two decades, sixty-nine percent of teetotalers died compared to sixty percent of the participants who were classified as heavy drinkers. Only 41% of moderate drinkers died during the testing period.

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