Ever wondered why many teetotalers are boring? A lot of times they act grumpy and depressed, incapable of letting other people enjoy the things they gave up. Well, Spanish researchers looked into the connection between alcohol consumption and depression and guess what? According to their research alcohol (in moderate amounts) decreases your chances to get depressed. Especially red wine has a great effect on your state of mind. No wonder right? Georgians are drinking this stuff for 8.000 years and they’re still going strong. With the dark days coming up in the Northern Hemisphere usually more suicides occur. But if we all just share some wine with our loved ones, maybe we’re gonna be just fine.
Back to the research. 15 different universities, institutes and hospitals worked together on this one. They tested 5.505 people in the ‘depression risk group’ of 55 to 80 years old. None of them had a history with alcohol problems or depressions. Now they were devided in 4 groups. One that didn’t drink at all, one that drank at most 5 glasses a week, one that drank 5 to 10 glasses and one that drank up to 15. Well, we won’t bore you with too much LOTD-propaganda, but we’ll just show you the original table with the results.
As you see the more alcohol, the lower the chance on having a depression. To be honest this contradicts with previous research with larger amounts of alcohol. That’s why the researchers still say that ‘a moderate amount’ of alcohol makes you feel better about yourself. To read the full research paper including more statistics click here and draw your own conclusions. Ours is that abstinence is clearly unhealthy.
Micky Bumbar
Bonjour Tout le monde
Theres nothing like a drop of the redstuff to cheer everybody up – l hope it was a house red, nice and fruity at a good price.
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Can’t agree with you more! Santé! 😉
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How right you are. I have some students who are teetotal for religious reasons, they are both evangelicals. They are about as interesting as a dead mullet.
AV
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Hahaha hope they don’t read this blog and see you write this, but I recognize what you say. In Holland we don’t have that many people who don’t drink at all, but in the area’s known as the Bible Belt we have and they are boring as fuck. The weird thing is that they actually can drink as Christians, but just chose not to. 😦
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Cheers!
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Right back at ya! 😉
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Thanks for visiting my blog! And for coming up with a reason for me to open the bottle of red in the kitchen 😉
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Haha my pleasure and glad we could provide you with a good excuse to hit the vino! 😉
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All in moderation! Unfortunately some people cannot grasp this. They either drink themselves to death or go tee totalling, which totally sucks. A little wine never hurt anyone
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Well drinking to forget is never a good idea, Personally I love to get smashed but only in happy times. When you are feeling depressed just take 1 glass a day or something. Kinda like that saying with apples and doctors.
Cheers,
Micky
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