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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I rarely drink but I just don’t get this.  Italians Spaniards and the French all drink socially on a very regular basis.  If this were true, they would have much higher rates of dementia.  But they don’t seem to.  Is it possible that people in the U.S. that drink regularly also tend to eat a diet that increases risk of dementia?  [/quote]

Bingo!!

IMO, that is very likely the case.  Go to Italy, France and Spain---do you see 40% of the population as overweight/obese?  Nope!  They eat much healthier, they exercise simply "doing daily life" as they walk much more, and they don't overeat.

I figure, I eat healthy, walk 10-15K daily sometime more, get 7-8+ hours of sleep 6out of 7 days, never smoked, never done "drugs".  I've never been overweight (most was for the 1-2 years post having a kid where I held onto 15-20 lbs, which disappeared once I stopped breastfeeding each kid). My only real vices are dark chocolate and wine.  Sure, it might cut a few years off my life, but I prefer to enjoy my life as well.  I also figure, if you do 95% of life very healthy, then you can cheat a bit with a few "risks" that give you great pleasure.

But if you are going to have 2-3 drinks daily AND get only 1K steps, sleep for 4-5 hours, smoke, smoke weed, do some recreational drugs, and be 40+lbs overweight, well then you might see more detrimental effects on your life.

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