Posted by Greg A. on October 30, 2001, at 0:47:25
In reply to Even more input, posted by Gracie2 on October 29, 2001, at 20:56:01
Gracie,
I agree with some of your sentiments. If we paid strict attention to the all the warnings and supposed perils attendant to what we eat, drink, drive, breath, talk into, look at, etc. there would be little there to live for.
Drinking in moderation is great. Lots of people do it and I'm sure it either does no harm or even prolongs their life and makes it more enjoyable. But I don't drink in moderation. I don't drink to enjoy life. I drink to numb life. And it doesn't work.
BTW, another recent study of the longer-lived French wine drinkers indicated that one reason for the longer life span was that it is the more affluent who drink wine in moderation; and they also ate better, had better medical care and so on. The rest of us were beer swilling slobs who would inevitably die much earlier of diseases with horrible names. (Linda McCartney was the anomaly in the study and she never could sing anyways)
Greg
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