I've been working on fully cutting out alcohol from my diet. I tried for years but I think I am finally succeeding. Haven't had a drink in almost two months.
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Great work dude, keep it up πͺ
Hell ya! βπ» for my sober homies! I quit consuming alcohol in February. Keep it going Lemmy friend!
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keep it up
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They also found that drinking raises the risk of:
...sexually transmitted infections
This statement really made we wonder if they thought about actual causality at all.
From a summary:
Drinking damages the liver and may make the body more vulnerable to infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis.
Or from the review itself:
Infectious disease
The causal impact of alcohol on the four broad categories of infectious disease from the last Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health [1] has been confirmed in recent reviews [15, 16]. The main biological mechanism involves alcohol-induced liver dysfunction, which disrupts both non-specific innate and adaptive immune responses through acute and chronic alcohol consumption [80-84]. Lowered immune responses increase susceptibility to communicable diseases. More specific biological pathways are described in the references listed in Table 1.
Didn't know liver and immune system are that connected
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Stop. Fucking. Your. Beer. Bottles.
I'm more partial to whisky bottles.
Now you're just bragging.
1984 calendar meme
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I don't know how someone who grew up around people who drinked could have any other perception of alcohol than as poison. I don't know a single person who drinks regularly who doesn't have health conditions directly linked to it.
On the other hand, why do you think we gave up the hunter/gatherer life style?
Cultivating grapes for wine and grain for beer was the origin of civilization!
I hate that alcohol, such an obvious health detriment, is so ingrained in culture that people don't even question it... Your link makes it worse!
Like the link points out, we were drinking before we had written language.
It's a matter of dealing with life on life's terms. The reality is that people like drinking. Sometimes people drink too much, and a few unlucky folks can't drink anything without risking death.
I ocne read a story about a Vietnam era war correspondent. He was a pacifist before going to cover combat and seeing combat up close made him hate war even more.
At one point a publisher asks him to contribute an article that 'deglamorizes war.'
He wrote back that deglamorizing war would be as easy as deglamorizing sex.
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My dad worked on a project that could have made him and his colleague probably very rich (at least, it was successfully done to great wealth by someone else many years later) but his colleague had problems with alcohol, drunk called the investors and whatever he said made them pull out such that they had to cancel the project.
His drinking got worse from there for him and he spent years in and out of prison. When I was about to go to college and my dad was meeting him after he got back out he took me aside and strictly warned me not to go crazy drinking in college. I truthfully told him that I donβt drink at all and I guess that was inconceivable to him because he started going, βYou WILL drink. EVERYBODY drinks. Donβt lie andβ¦β so on so forth.
It never seemed appealing to me what with seeing people ruin their lives and act foolish, the odor, all the money people spend on it etc. Iβm sure the taste is fine if you push through and try it a bunch but from seeing the effects I never wanted to. Meanwhile visiting other peopleβs houses as a kid my friends would be doing stuff like asking his mom if he could sniff her wineglass at dinner. π
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Damn, glad I quit drinking.
(Hits vape pen.)
(/s, just in case it wasn't clear.)
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wow if only we had any idea like since the dawn of time
Had to do a double take with that image, the last time I saw it was in the instructions for how to use a menstrual cup. π³
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While all of this is true and concerning, now is not the time to raw dog reality.
Doing weed is also bad for me. It got me quite severe health effects that I'm dealing with right now.
I'm not regretting it for a second and the second my issues are under control I'll use weed again (in much lower doses) because living in the raw reality right now just makes you depressed and suicidal. I'm m neither, and I'll contribute that happily to pot, it made life nice again for a few years
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Alcohol is responsible for about half my problems. The other half are from not drinking enough.
Here is to alcohol! The cause of and solution to, all of life's problems!
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Gotta go sometime and Iβd rather do it having enjoyed a little bit of wine
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Eh, I quit a few years ago. When you have to have conversations with yourself about it, itβs time. So cold turkey I went, luckily NBD for me. The only time I miss it is after a really trying, long day; or Iβm just craving flavors that arenβt sugary drinks like soda. I donβt like sweet drinks very much. Alcohol lends an intensity to flavors thatβs impossible to replicate.
Looking back at it Iβm really glad I quit.
Anyway, hopefully added years/stopped shaving years off my life. Weβll see.
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Iβll drink to that
Yep, it sucks. But it turns out there's a non-stop drip of terrible fucking news, the planet continues to get hotter with more wildfires every year, my well-paying career in software might be soon over due to the advent of AI coding, I'm working for the worst company I have ever worked for and with one of the worst bosses I've ever seen, the president is getting shows critical of him cancelled in order to approve sales of all major media platforms to his fascist friends (and fail sons), the cost of everything is skyrocketing, social security looks likely to collapse before I can ever collect it, and there does not appear to be any relief in sight for any of this.
Maybe I don't need to go old and healthy at 80+.
It's obvious that drinking isn't good for you, but it was just as obvious that smoking isn't good for you and that didn't keep my grandparents from doing it until it killed them β and nicotine barely gives you any buzz at all. We all gotta go some time.
consider it this way: getting old may suck. getting old, sick and having strokes sucks way more and just makes you miserable and a burden to a bunch of people who didnt deserve it. you wont be taking it out your enemy. just hurting yourself and finding more reasons to hate yourself.
We have locked everything anyone needs to live a decent life behind a massive paywall, make a habit of eliminating any way besides debt to make it over the massive paywall, and then scientists do research on people's coping mechanisms so that others can use that as a way to feel righteous condemning a stranger's habits.
Notice how you didn't spend a moment discussing where relief for any of the very real problems I mentioned is coming from because you likely know it isn't.
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Welp. cracks open another one
Its either you get the diseases getting drunk or get the diseases sober but from unregulated food industry.
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