[HN Gopher] Drinking any amount of alcohol causes damage to the ...
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       Drinking any amount of alcohol causes damage to the brain, study
       finds
        
       Author : gtirloni
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2021-05-20 20:35 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (edition.cnn.com)
        
       | ProjectArcturis wrote:
       | CNN is writing up an observational study that hasn't even been
       | peer reviewed yet? One of the under-recognized negative effects
       | of the pandemic is that it taught health journalists what
       | medarchive is.
        
       | tuxie_ wrote:
       | I feel like whatever your position on any drug is, you will
       | always find a study to back up your belief.
        
       | mcbishop wrote:
       | I wonder how marijuana fares on this front. For me, marijuana +
       | kombucha is an awesome alcohol alternative.
        
         | babaganoosh89 wrote:
         | What does the kombucha do for you?
        
           | mcbishop wrote:
           | It doesn't have a discernable psychoactive effect for me.
           | It's just a satisfying fizzy thing to sip on, that helps me
           | not yearn for a beer.
        
           | weird-eye-issue wrote:
           | Replaces drinking alcohol
        
             | greatgoat420 wrote:
             | But it has alcohol, usually 2-3% some times much higher,
             | and traditionally has been poorly regulated.
        
       | hh0h00h0h0h wrote:
       | This is probably the 6th or 7th anti-alcohol advertisement on HN
       | in the past 2 weeks or so.
       | 
       | Whose pushing this agenda and why is it on HN?
        
         | gtirloni wrote:
         | There's no agenda. I saw this article and thought it would be a
         | good discussion topic for HN. I haven't read any anti-alcohol
         | articles on HN in the past few months.
        
       | gentleman11 wrote:
       | Another way of reading this is to conclude that you can have a
       | fun life full of drinking at the cost of 0.8% more brain
       | degradation while you age. I wish they would put at least some
       | effort into explaining their numbers, because that sounds like
       | nothing, but I'm sure the authors have reason to think otherwise
        
         | ZeroGravitas wrote:
         | There's a whole bunch of headlines that can be read as "this is
         | really big" or "our measurements are very precise".
        
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