salacious_coasterOct 7

TIL I'm in the top 5% of drinkers in the US. Whoo!

https://infosec.pub/post/35820694

TIL I'm in the top 5% of drinkers in the US. Whoo! - Infosec.Pub

> NIAAA defines heavy alcohol use as follows: > For men, consuming five or more drinks on any day or 15 or more per week > For women, consuming four or more drinks on any day or eight or more per week > According to the 2024 NSDUH, 14.4 million adults ages 18 and older (5.5% in this age group) reported heavy alcohol use in the past month Five drinks for me would be a good date night dinner at home (cocktail hour, plus two glasses of wine with dinner). Hardly a bacchanal, but apparently America is slacking as of late.

Show threadAngeluszOct 7
I hope you work hard on your antioxidants and enough exercise.
Show threadsalacious_coaster
I try. But frankly, my level of drinking (these days) doesn’t do any medically detectable damage, according to my doctor. The point of the post was to make light of how ridiculously low the standard for “heavy drinking” is, and the implied likelihood that the stats are bullshit.
Oct 7 at 9:01pmWeb
Show threadZettaOct 7
You’re substantially increasing your chances of developing some form of cancer vs baseline though.
Show threadWombleOct 9
You're misinterpreting the graph. That graph is number of drinks per day the OP's post was 5/day once a week or 15 over the week. 15/week is ~2 a day on everage which is at the threshhold of unmodified risk based on that graph.
Show threadAngeluszOct 7
Many have ridiculously outdated ideas about what constitutes safe enough behavior. We all damage our bodies every day doing… well, living. The art is in the heal.