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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. I am an MD with a large wine collection and I even got married in Napa. I think that we have tried to rationalize away the health harms of alcohol for a long time - studies touting red wine and cardiac health, alcohol as a part of the Mediterranean diet, alcohol in moderation for pregnant women is fine, etc have long been cited as reasons to keep drinking. But the alcohol industry’s funding of such studies and the well established studies looking at cytotoxicity of alcohol and the well known links between alcohol consumption and cancer should give us pause.

Alcohol is so damn enjoyable and so culturally acceptable that we are willing to look past all the harm that it does to health and societal well being. If you look at it dispassionately, it seems obvious that the bad outweighs the good. Those prohibitionists had a point.

I’ve cut back and drink once a month or less. My last drink was in March. I should quit completely, but I admit it - I enjoy wine and champagne and I don’t want to give it up on social occasions (I’ve successfully been indoctrinated by the wine industry). I love the glasses and the bottles, wine tasting, the whole theater of ordering wine at a restaurant, walking into a wine shop etc. But I am coming around to the fact that alcohol is unequivocally bad for you. I definitely do not offer or encourage my teens to drink.

I also think that we will one day view pregnant moms who have a glass of burgundy with dinner the same way we view pregnant moms who enjoy a Marlboro light after dinner. Smoking used to be acceptable and even advised for pregnant women. [/quote]

I was last pregnant nearly 20 years ago and it was very much known that pregnant women should not drink at all and that it was damaging.[/quote]

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