"Drinking is good for you" junk...bites the dust

There have been 'studies' out for years....Trying to "prove" that "abstaining from alcohol is actually not good for a person".

Those of us in the field of alcoholism have intuitively known that there is something inherently 'suspect' in reports that try to prove that people should drink a drug.....that 'not-drinking is "bad" for you'... especially with the high amount of alcoholism in the U.S. (Gallup poll, years ago, said that 40% of American families have active alcoholism. The latest stats from Fed. government says it is now 47% to 53% of American families.)

Well, just as Milam (author, "Under the Influence") ---- showed, back in the 1970's, that the Rand Report was falsified (Rand Corp. tried to 'prove' that alcoholics can 'socially drink' successfully) -------

...........Now---- a report came out from the University of California, that looked deeply into those studies that have claimed that 'abstaining from alcohol is not good for you"........ and found that the "abstainers" in almost all the studies ------- were people who had stopped drinking because of ill health.

"Once you get to late middle age or become elderly, more and more people drink lightly or abstain altogether," says WebMD. "The decrease in alcohol consumption in these age groups is associated with illness and frailty and use of medications that might interact with alcohol. By not removing these people from the abstainer group, abstainers appeared to be less healthy because of absence of alcohol. In truth, they were ill -- and showing all signs of death, premature or not."

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I would very much like to see reports (if it ever were to come out) about who funded those "abstaining from alcohol is not good for people" reports......... or see answers about who 'was at the top' of the administration/creation of those reports.
(Perhaps ask their spouses if there was a roaring alcohol problem that was hell-bent on justifying itself, no matter what the means?)

Years ago, there was a news article in back of the A.A. Grapevine monthly magazine........ it was a reprint of a report from a newspaper that 'did its homework'--------
Statistics from reports to shareholders ------that the "alcohol beverage industry" gets 52% of its profits from 10% of its buyers.

You do the math.
Without alcoholism ----- that 'industry' would collapse.

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