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Study: People Who Benefit from Moderate Alcohol Consumption an Exception to the Norm
The holiday season is upon us and many of you will likely be giving a toast at some point. Over the next few weeks there are parties to attend, toasts to raise, and libations to be had. But it’s not all fun and smiles when booze is involved.
The holidays also offer a big jump in alcohol-related car accidents and fatalities, in which drivers are two to three times as likely to die. It’s a rather sobering reality about the impacts of alcohol.
Alcohol is often a point of contention. Many try to justify its use by citing studies saying it has benefits when consumed in moderation. There are studies indicating it can promote cardiovascular health in older adults when it’s consumed moderately.
But how true are they? Well, new research is showing that people who stand to benefit from alcohol are an exception to the norm.
Read More – http://www.doctorshealthpress.com/general-health/negative-health-effects-of-alcohol-consumption
From the article…
“Alcohol is hard to avoid”
Stupid statement, if you’re an alcoholic, sure, it will be hard to avoid your hard drug of choice.
Drinking a glass of wine or such on holidays or special occasions is one thing, drinking all the time, well you have a problem or your friend or relative has a problem. Drunks are not cute, not clever, not funny. They are a danger to children and society. Stop humoring them. They are sick. Help them to heal.
Otherwise, it is not hard to avoid alcohol at all. You just have to ignore all the dolts that try to shame you for not fitting in, being a drag, not wanting to have fun, and all the other lame things that your drug using friends say. We are an alcoholic nation where the non or sparse drinker are considered odd. Really, you may want to limit your exposure to these hard drug users, they do not have your best interest at heart, they simply want you to join them in their stupidity and addictions.
You just have to stand up to the drinkers and realize that they are mentally-ill, if they are drunks or trying to push their drug on you. You may have to just drop them as “friends” or even family. Family drunks are worse because they will destroy your mental-health if you cannot get away from them. (like children with alcoholic “druggies” for “parents.”)
Some tactics if you cannot say no for fear of being ostracized from the “village”—
–if you don’t want to create a scene with drunks, then accept their drink and simply pretend to drink, and put your glass down somewhere. This method works until the self-appointed drinking monitor approaches and declares that you are not drinking, what’s wrong with you, and hands you another drink.
–Walk around with a glass water or another beverage and it will appear that you are drinking. You are allowed to lie to drunks and imply it’s alcohol when the drunk presses the matter. This will keep the aggressive drinking monitor at bay and other syrupy insincere sloppy tipsy drinkers happy.
–Hang out with those that respect you rather that condemn you. Life is too short to spend time with or live in fear of aggressive drug addicts. Leave them in the dust.
–Realize that if you need a drink to socialize, or open up, then you are dysfunctional. Work on that.
The price to step outside of the mass-hypnosis of the status quo and be yourself is to liberate you from the dictates of the insane. It is quite a trip to be free from the mad dictates of a sleeping humanity.
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Every day in America, another 28 people die as a result of drunk driving crashes.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration FARS data, 2013.
Every two minutes, a person is injured in a drunk driving crash.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. “The Economic and Societal Impact Of Motor Vehicle Crashes, 2010.” National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, May 2014, DOT HS 812 013. http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/812013.pdf.
Drunk driving costs the United States $199 billion a year.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. “The Economic and Societal Impact Of Motor Vehicle Crashes, 2010.” National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, May 2014, DOT HS 812 013. http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/812013.pdf.
In 2012, 10,322 people died in drunk driving crashes – one every 51 minutes – and 290,000 were injured in drunk driving crashes.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. “The Economic and Societal Impact Of Motor Vehicle Crashes, 2010.” National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, May 2014, DOT HS 812 013. http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/812013.pdf.