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NancyLebovitz comments on Moderate alcohol consumption inversely correlated with all-cause mortality - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: michaelcurzi 11 July 2012 05:41PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 12 July 2012 02:18:46AM 8 points [-]

Even if moderate drinking is good for people who like to do it, the good effects might not be there for people who don't like it.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 12 July 2012 11:44:20PM 0 points [-]

Yes. I thought so too - if it's really helping me, mightn't I see some incremental short-term benefit?

Huge (often genetic) variations in response to particular foodstuffs are already well known. (though my intoxication : dose response seems typical, really).