EP 226: Reader Question – Does moderate drinking make you live longer than exercise?
This Naked Mind Podcast
Annie Grace
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Once in a while we see a headline about how drinking is actually good for you. Is this legit? Annie blows up this misleading information and gets a little fired up in the process! Annie shares research and statistics that will make you rethink these fallacies.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without |
| 0:15.2 | judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture. |
| 0:20.2 | Hi, it's Annie Grace, the author of this naked mind. And today I'm coming to you about |
| 0:33.1 | an article that came out yesterday, actually a whole slew of articles that came out yesterday |
| 0:38.0 | with a title similar to this one, drinking alcohol, boost longevity, even more than |
| 0:43.6 | exercise says 14 year study. So again, I've talked about this before, but we see headlines |
| 0:49.1 | that like this and everybody says, oh great permission. Yay, we can drink and it's not |
| 0:53.9 | bad for us. And those headlines get shared and shared and shared and it's absolutely |
| 0:59.6 | crazy. And so it creates this very pervasive idea in our culture that alcohol, moderate |
| 1:04.0 | drinking is good for you where the science says just the opposite. The science actually |
| 1:08.8 | says that just two drinks a week can increase in women's chance of breast cancer by 15% |
| 1:14.3 | that over and over and over again, drinking is not good for your heart, not good for you. |
| 1:18.7 | So I want to talk specifically about this study because I looked into exactly what it was |
| 1:23.0 | and talk about some of the fallacies and some of the things that we don't see when we |
| 1:27.6 | just read the headline. So the 90 year is called the 90 plus study and what it is is it started |
| 1:33.7 | in 2003, it was a study to study people over 90 years old. And so it's one of the largest |
| 1:40.3 | studies of the oldest of the old in the world. And it's 1600 people who have enrolled |
| 1:45.3 | and they're studied from 90 to 91 on. So they're in their 90s. And so what this study |
| 1:52.2 | did is it looked at things like are people who are in their 90s exercising and how does |
| 1:58.0 | that correlate to at what age they're dying are people in their 90s drinking and how does |
| 2:02.7 | that correlate to at what age they're dying. So a few things they don't talk about cause |
| 2:08.4 | of death. So when you're saying they're dying, we don't know what they're dying from. |
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