I’ve been drinking more beer in the last three months than I have in the last fifteen years. Meaning, I’ve been drinking beer at all. I gave it up because it made me sluggish, but I’ve fallen back in love with beer’s flavor. Is this an unhealthy development?
In his 2014 Pacific Standard article “The Truth We Won’t Admit: Drinking Is Healthy,” Stanton Peele not only argues that moderate alcohol consumption protects you from cardiovascular disease and helps you live longer, he treats abstinence itself as an undeniable risk factor in heart disease and shortened life spans. “Well-informed Americans,” he says, “think that abstinence is better for them.” The reason: “…Americans’ addiction-phobia, which causes them to interpret any daily drinking as addictive.” A psychologist and addiction specialist by trade, he cites studies that show the positive effects moderate and even “excessive” drinking have on health and longevity. Peele traces this deep-seated cultural issue back to the temperance movement on through modern health care, where the U.S. public health establishment’s standard treatment of alcohol’s cardiovascular benefits is a resounding, systematic silence.
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Author: Aaron Gilbreath
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Bible reference(s): Genesis 9:21, Genesis 9:24, Genesis 14:18, Genesis 19:32, Genesis 19:33, Genesis 19:34, Genesis 19:35, Genesis 27:25, Genesis 27:28, Genesis 27:37, Genesis 49:11, Genesis 49:12, Exodus 29:40, Leviticus 10:9, Leviticus 23:13, Numbers 6:3, Numbers 6:20, Numbers 15:5, Numbers 15:7, Numbers 15:10, Numbers 18:12, Numbers 28:7, Numbers 28:14, Deuteronomy 7:13, Deuteronomy 11:14, Deuteronomy 12:17, Deuteronomy 14:23, Deuteronomy 14:26, Deuteronomy 16:13, Deuteronomy 18:4, Deuteronomy 21:20, Deuteronomy 28:39, Deuteronomy 28:51, Deuteronomy 29:6, Deuteronomy 32:33, Deuteronomy 32:38, Deuteronomy 33:28, Joshua 9:4, Joshua 9:13, Judges 9:13, Judges 13:4, Judges 13:7, Judges 13:14, Judges 19:19, 1 Samuel 1:14, 1 Samuel 1:15, 1 Samuel 1:24, 1 Samuel 10:3, 1 Samuel 16:20, 1 Samuel 25:18, 1 Samuel 25:37, 2 Samuel 6:19, 2 Samuel 13:28, 2 Samuel 16:1, 2 Samuel 16:2, 2 Kings 18:32, 1 Chronicles 9:29, 1 Chronicles 12:40, 1 Chronicles 16:3, 1 Chronicles 27:27, 2 Chronicles 2:10, 2 Chronicles 2:15, 2 Chronicles 11:11, 2 Chronicles 31:5, 2 Chronicles 32:28, Ezra 6:9, Ezra 7:22, Nehemiah 2:1, Nehemiah 5:11, Nehemiah 5:15, Nehemiah 5:18, Nehemiah 10:37, Nehemiah 10:39, Nehemiah 13:5, Nehemiah 13:12, Nehemiah 13:15, Esther 1:7, Esther 1:10, Esther 5:6, Esther 7:2, Esther 7:7, Esther 7:8, Job 1:13, Job 1:18, Job 32:19, Psalms 4:7, Psalms 60:3, Psalms 69:12, Psalms 75:8, Psalms 78:65, Psalms 104:15, Proverbs 3:10, Proverbs 4:17, Proverbs 9:2, Proverbs 9:5, Proverbs 20:1, Proverbs 21:17, Proverbs 23:21, Proverbs 23:30, Proverbs 23:31, Proverbs 26:9, Proverbs 31:4, Proverbs 31:6, Ecclesiastes 2:3, Ecclesiastes 9:7, Ecclesiastes 10:19, Song of Solomon 1:2, Song of Solomon 1:4, Song of Solomon 4:10, Song of Solomon 5:1, Song of Solomon 7:9, Song of Solomon 8:2, Isaiah 1:22, Isaiah 5:11, Isaiah 5:12, Isaiah 5:22, Isaiah 16:10, Isaiah 22:13, Isaiah 24:7, Isaiah 24:9, Isaiah 24:11, Isaiah 24:20, Isaiah 27:2, Isaiah 28:1, Isaiah 28:3, Isaiah 28:7, Isaiah 29:9, Isaiah 36:17, Isaiah 49:26, Isaiah 51:21, Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 56:12, Isaiah 62:8, Isaiah 65:8, Jeremiah 13:12, Jeremiah 23:9, Jeremiah 25:15, Jeremiah 31:12, Jeremiah 35:2, Jeremiah 35:5, Jeremiah 35:6, Jeremiah 35:8, Jeremiah 35:14, Jeremiah 40:10, Jeremiah 40:12, Jeremiah 48:33, Jeremiah 51:7, Lamentations 2:12, Ezekiel 27:18, Ezekiel 44:21, Daniel 1:5, Daniel 1:8, Daniel 1:16, Daniel 5:1, Daniel 5:2, Daniel 5:4, Daniel 5:23, Daniel 10:3, Hosea 2:8, Hosea 2:9, Hosea 2:22, Hosea 3:1, Hosea 4:11, Hosea 7:5, Hosea 7:14, Hosea 9:2, Hosea 9:4, Hosea 14:7, Joel 1:5, Joel 1:10, Joel 2:19, Joel 2:24, Joel 3:3, Joel 3:18, Amos 2:8, Amos 2:12, Amos 5:11, Amos 6:6, Amos 9:13, Amos 9:14, Micah 2:11, Micah 6:15, Nahum 1:10, Habakkuk 2:5, Zephaniah 1:13, Haggai 1:11, Haggai 2:12, Zechariah 9:15, Zechariah 9:17, Zechariah 10:7, Matthew 9:17, Mark 2:22, Mark 15:23, Luke 1:15, Luke 5:37, Luke 5:38, Luke 5:39, Luke 7:33, Luke 10:34, John 2:3, John 2:9, John 2:10, John 4:46, Acts 2:13, Romans 14:21, 1 Corinthians 5:11, 1 Corinthians 6:10, Ephesians 5:18, 1 Timothy 3:3, 1 Timothy 3:8, 1 Timothy 5:23, Titus 1:7, Titus 2:3, 1 Peter 4:3, Revelation 6:6, Revelation 14:8, Revelation 14:10, Revelation 16:19, Revelation 17:2, Revelation 18:3, Revelation 18:13
Source: “Everything in Moderation, Including Moderation,” Longreads, April 21, 2016.
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