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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article is very vague as to what it is we know and what we don't know. For example is there any known harm from one drink per week? How do the effects of alcohol compare to the effects of highly processed foods? At the bottom they say nobody's saying you shouldn't drink at all but clearly that is the message the headline is conveying. It's very alarmist with no context. We eat, drink and do things that have proven harms all the time, but I feel like we still have these prohibition-era attitudes that put alcohol in a different category in terms of how it is messaged.[/quote]

This comment is important to contextualize risks from alcohol consumption.  They’re real, but when we’re talking about drinking at lower levels, it’s hard to know how they compare vs. other things like crappy diets, not exercising, not sleeping enough, etc.

A big part of the issue with alcohol is that most people who drink don’t know what a standard drink actually is.  Relatedly, most people underestimate the amount they consume, which makes it hard to know how much alcohol is actually harmful.  That is, if the people who report one drink a day are drinking more like two drinks a day, that matters for health outcomes, right?

I’m not advocating anyone drinks - the less alcohol, the better.  OTOH, scolding women who sometimes drink two drinks/day (two actual drinks), for example, isn’t the best use of time, either.[/quote]

It was not too long ago that the CDC was telling any woman not on birth control not to drink. That was awesome when my friends gave me the side eye because they knew I was TTC. For who knows what reason it did not occur to them that when you are TTC there are times of the month when you definitely know you are NOT pregnant and maybe you should leave your friends struggling with fertility issues TF alone when they want to have a brunch cocktail after their period shows up.[/quote]

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