amelia: I completely agree. Also, pregnant women are told to completely abstain from alcohol since consumption of this substance leads to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. If it's not okay for a newly developing human being, then in my books, it's also not okay for human beings that are aging. That is, if great health is what we want.
The thing is, alcohol stops the livers ability to detoxify other toxins. So, while your liver is detoxing the alchol in your system, it cannot cope with other toxins. Perhaps, in the past, this once such a big issue, if drinking now and then. However, there are now over 80,000 chemicals registered for use in North America. We are bombarded with toxins on a daily, hourly, and minute by minute basis. We need to give our liver, and our bodies, the best possible situation to survive this toxic overload and to avoid or overcome disease.
I took the Living to 100 questionaire. My calculated expectancy was 100. However, I also believe sunscreen and dairy products deteriorate health, and I take high doses of EPA instead of the site's recommended ASA (EPA from fish oil is much, much healthier for preventing strokes). So given that, I figure my calculated expectancy would be up around 120! See my testimony on "Living Long is Overrated".
Check out the 40-question Living to 100 questionairre linked to my testimony "Red Wine for Healthy People". One questions concerns quality of air. Actually, most of the ideas there seem to track yours, except for a few.
Peter, your premise does not take into account, that those centenarians lived in a previous world of much, much less toxic pollution (enviromental, food, water, air). I predict that the centenarians of the future (say 40 years from now), will be non-alcohol users.
I'm suspecting that alcohol might be one of those things that, in moderation, helps healthly people, but, like you say, damages people whose livers aren't healthy. I find it telling that more than a few centenarians have been wine drinkers. But of course, the notion that X may be good for you but bad for me is usually too tricky an notion for Americans.
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amelia: I completely agree. Also, pregnant women are told to completely abstain from alcohol since consumption of this substance leads to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. If it's not okay for a newly developing human being, then in my books, it's also not okay for human beings that are aging. That is, if great health is what we want.
The thing is, alcohol stops the livers ability to detoxify other toxins. So, while your liver is detoxing the alchol in your system, it cannot cope with other toxins. Perhaps, in the past, this once such a big issue, if drinking now and then. However, there are now over 80,000 chemicals registered for use in North America. We are bombarded with toxins on a daily, hourly, and minute by minute basis. We need to give our liver, and our bodies, the best possible situation to survive this toxic overload and to avoid or overcome disease.
I'll drink to that - Only carrot juice though!
I took the Living to 100 questionaire. My calculated expectancy was 100. However, I also believe sunscreen and dairy products deteriorate health, and I take high doses of EPA instead of the site's recommended ASA (EPA from fish oil is much, much healthier for preventing strokes). So given that, I figure my calculated expectancy would be up around 120! See my testimony on "Living Long is Overrated".
Check out the 40-question Living to 100 questionairre linked to my testimony "Red Wine for Healthy People". One questions concerns quality of air. Actually, most of the ideas there seem to track yours, except for a few.
Peter, your premise does not take into account, that those centenarians lived in a previous world of much, much less toxic pollution (enviromental, food, water, air). I predict that the centenarians of the future (say 40 years from now), will be non-alcohol users.
I'm suspecting that alcohol might be one of those things that, in moderation, helps healthly people, but, like you say, damages people whose livers aren't healthy. I find it telling that more than a few centenarians have been wine drinkers. But of course, the notion that X may be good for you but bad for me is usually too tricky an notion for Americans.