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Alcohol Consumption Patterns and Mortality Among Older Adults

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What I get out of this research after a cursory read is your socioeconomic status has a greater effect on your health outcome than the amount you drink.

That should be obvious to anyone over the age of 6

It was odd that morbidity was always tied to health or socioeconomic issues in this article. It sounded like rich people don’t have too worry about alcohol, which would be bizarre.

Can someone knowledgeable in this area perhaps expand?

My take away is that being rich is really good for you health, enough to offset any negative effects alcohol might have.

there are a whole bunch of 'good traits' and 'bad traits' that are clustered together and its difficult to properly understand the causal relationships between them.

I’m not knowledgeable in this area, but I imagine that living with stress is a major factor in how strongly other negatives end up affecting you.

People who struggle financially are under constant stress.

Self made rich people are also notoriously overworked and under constant stress.

It’s like, an artificial, unnecessary, self-induced constant stress.

But I don’t think the human body can really tell the difference.

TFA is about people in their sixties, which if they are wealthy (self-made or not) are unlikely to still be spending their time overworked, and are likely significantly less stressed than people who are poor at that age. That being said, younger poor people also tend to overwork to make ends meet.

Presumably the effect of stress is cumulative across the lifespan…

hot take: if it is shortened by N years but the years you have are k times more pleasurable there are many sweet spots.

not a drinker myself but generally triggered by the pure data driven approaches to health / diat topics.

computer says party on

Yeah I’m pretty sure being 80 sucks regardless. Though being 50 doesn’t have to suck and if you live the wrong way I think it often does.

Being 80 probably sucks in a lot of ways, but may be better than the alternative.

ah, so you want researchers to not focus purely on providing high quality data so that you can make an informed decision about the sweet spot, but rather you want researchers to inject their own thoughts and opinions into their research and to suggest behaviors. what an interesting take

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