• Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu
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    18 hours ago

    The safe amount of alcohol science recommend for an adult is zero.

    Alcohol is one of the few substances for which these is proven evidence that any quantity is bad and will cause progressive and irreversible damage to you.

    I do drink albeit not much, like a few times a year, so I am not against alcohol at all, it’s your body your choice.

    But given the above, I am only happy if the tolerance on driving under any alcohol influence at all is punished

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      13 hours ago

      Don’t take this the wrong way, but this is an answer to a question OP didn’t ask. They were asking for a descriptive answer to the driving limit, not a normative opinion of what you think the limit should be.

      Also your conclusion doesn’t follow from the premise. (I could be wrong; but it really doesn’t matter anyway considering the first paragraph of my response)

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        8 hours ago

        Yes you are right, but I think a good answer to op question had to consider that zero tolerance at the driving seat is the correct answer, and my take is not on saving the children, as other stated, but that on a dangerous substance there cannot be a itching other than zero tolerance on drunk driving.

        Let’s say a different take.

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      16 hours ago

      Alcohol is one of the few substances for which these is proven evidence that any quantity is bad

      I’ve seen some researches pushing this agenda. They mostly focused on one thing, like cancer, or cut out the “zero consumption” cohort. More comprehensive research shows that while any amount of alcohol increases cancer risks, good done to dexterity of vascular systems overweights it in terms of life expectancy overall at around 7 drinks a week.

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        8 hours ago

        Yes and my grandmother lived to 80 because she drank wine every lunch and dinner.

        No, that’s not true and alcohol doesn’t help the vascular system in any meaningful way. You can find scientific research that says anything and the opposite of that, that’s why what you need is scientific evidence on quality studies that have been repeated abd confirmed by the community at large.

        It’s hard to understand how science works, but having studies says one thing is not enough, you need comprehensive studies and meta research as well to get a solid conclusion and that says alcohol doesn’t do any good to your body, and I am not talking about cancer but also mental degrade, damage to neurons and so on.

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        13 hours ago

        There are zero health benefits from alcohol that outweigh the drawbacks. As someone in medical, your comment is outdated misinformation people use to rationalize their drinking.

        I like whiskey but I am not under the guise that it is anyway helpful to my body.

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        14 hours ago

        Nope, your data is outdated. The explanation for that invalid argument is quite interesting actually.