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On the other hand, why do you think we gave up the hunter/gatherer life style?

Cultivating grapes for wine and grain for beer was the origin of civilization!

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2501758-did-ancient-humans-start-farming-so-they-could-drink-more-beer/

Damn, glad I quit drinking.

(Hits vape pen.)

(/s, just in case it wasn't clear.)

Had to do a double take with that image, the last time I saw it was in the instructions for how to use a menstrual cup. 😳

I've been working on fully cutting out alcohol from my diet. I tried for years but I think I am finally succeeding. Haven't had a drink in almost two months.

Life is the number one cause of death.

Gotta go sometime and I’d rather do it having enjoyed a little bit of wine

While all of this is true and concerning, now is not the time to raw dog reality.

They also found that drinking raises the risk of:

...sexually transmitted infections

This statement really made we wonder if they thought about actual causality at all.

I’ll drink to that

Welp. cracks open another one

My dad worked on a project that could have made him and his colleague probably very rich (at least, it was successfully done to great wealth by someone else many years later) but his colleague had problems with alcohol, drunk called the investors and whatever he said made them pull out such that they had to cancel the project.

His drinking got worse from there for him and he spent years in and out of prison. When I was about to go to college and my dad was meeting him after he got back out he took me aside and strictly warned me not to go crazy drinking in college. I truthfully told him that I don’t drink at all and I guess that was inconceivable to him because he started going, “You WILL drink. EVERYBODY drinks. Don’t lie and…” so on so forth.

It never seemed appealing to me what with seeing people ruin their lives and act foolish, the odor, all the money people spend on it etc. I’m sure the taste is fine if you push through and try it a bunch but from seeing the effects I never wanted to. Meanwhile visiting other people’s houses as a kid my friends would be doing stuff like asking his mom if he could sniff her wineglass at dinner. 💀

It's the cause of 100% of my arguments and misunderstandings, haha.

Eh, I quit a few years ago. When you have to have conversations with yourself about it, it’s time. So cold turkey I went, luckily NBD for me. The only time I miss it is after a really trying, long day; or I’m just craving flavors that aren’t sugary drinks like soda. I don’t like sweet drinks very much. Alcohol lends an intensity to flavors that’s impossible to replicate.

Looking back at it I’m really glad I quit.

Anyway, hopefully added years/stopped shaving years off my life. We’ll see.

I don't know how someone who grew up around people who drinked could have any other perception of alcohol than as poison. I don't know a single person who drinks regularly who doesn't have health conditions directly linked to it.

"Poison is bad for you."

No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health

cause

attributable

What now?

A review of the relationship between dimensions of alcohol consumption and the burden of disease: 2026 update including Mendelian randomisation studies https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.70435

Slow motion suicide.

Alcohol’s a helluva drug.

The amount of alcoholics in comment sections like this is crazy.

Half of the people are basically saying "I'd rather die that stop alcohol", the other half tries to cope by saying that all of these things about the dangers of alcohol are either false or exaggerated.

Even the crazy meat lovers are not that extreme.

Older males in my family were all diabetic by my age. The main difference between us? I don't drink wine with my meals. Idk if that's a coincidence, but it makes me wonder.