Want to Live Longer? Do Shots of Vodka

You know what I find irritating? When people say they don't need to drink to have fun. And they say it as the group is drinking. In fact, you need drinking to have a good amount of living years.

Peep this Time article about this paper printed in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. Ok, so people who drink moderately live longest (I binge a bit, but I'm going to be generous to myself and lump in with the moderates; moderate according to the study is 1 to 3 drinks a day BTW). But heavy drinkers outlive nondrinkers. The mortality rates of abstainers is higher than those of heavy drinkers.

Drinking in the moderate sense apparently improves circulation and sociability the latter really affects quality of life and logically quantity. The article argues that it's this that most likely is the reason for the heavy v. abstainers life-expectancy. Non-drinkers, for instance, show more signs of depression: "One important reason is that alcohol lubricates so many social interactions, and social interactions are vital for maintaining mental and physical health."

This article is groundbreaking to me because now I have an argument for that guy that says abstemtion is funner than a bit of drinking. It's in fact not. Plus I get an extra argument: yo, shoot this or you'll die sooner than I will.