from Zero Hedge
Authored by Tony Edwards via DailySceptic.org,
Will you sign up to Dry January this year? If you do, you won’t be alone.
Dry January was first invented 10 years ago by a U.K. charity called Alcohol Concern with a single purpose: “To reset after a month or two of holiday festivities (such as) office parties, fun nights out, and boozy nights in.”
Fair enough, perhaps, after an
over-indulgent Christmas. But the goalposts have since been uprooted and
replanted throughout the whole year. In February 2023, the charity (now
rebranded as Alcohol Change) launched another abstinence drive:
“Sober Spring – your three month break from alcohol, your chance to
break habits, start new ones and experience life alcohol-free.” Hmm…
What with the invention of two more monthly clones, Sober October and
Sober September, there soon won’t be many more days in the year for
drinkers to quaff a bevy or two without looking over their shoulders to
see who’s eyeing them accusingly.
I’m a medical research journalist and I first got interested in this issue after stumbling across the fact that although booze “contains” lots of calories, it does not make you put on weight. Clinical trials have demonstrated this surprising fact conclusively. The evidence is clear: if you replace food calories with alcohol calories, you will lose weight. And yet the medical authorities have repeatedly told us that drinking causes weight gain, one of many health reasons to give up drinking.
That mismatch between medical advice and medical evidence set me on the path of seeing what else ‘they’ were misleading us about. That led to a deep dive into the published medical research and my discovery that, although the health authorities were routinely bombarding us with anti-alcohol rhetoric, there are astonishing health benefits from drinking.
Seriously? Can alcohol really be good for your health?
Yes. (Read full article >>> )
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