In vino veritas
- From: phil.see.website@xxxxxxxxxx (Phil Aypee)
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:48:40 -0001
Hi,
This post reflects my personal opinion and my alcohol habits.
It is *not* intended to be advice.
For advice on this matter you should consult your doctor.
I booze.
I don't booze every day, just most days.
When I drink it's usually red wine, usually 4 glasses spread over 6 hours (late afternoon to evening).
Sometimes I have a little real ale in a pub in the lunchtime or early afternoon (real ale is mostly a UK thing).
Sometimes I have a couple of single malt scotches in the evening (with spring water).
About once a year I drink enough to get slightly inebriated, 'happy' rather than 'drunk'.
It's not deliberate, it just happens - usually when I'm listening to jazz.
I am not an alcoholic - if I were I'd have to quit drinking altogether, something I don't want to have to do.
Alcohol *is* a poison.
But everything is a poison if taken in excess, even water.
I stopped smoking many years ago.
Until I stopped I enjoyed it.
I *knew* it was undermining my health.
Even so, I didn't make a deliberate decision to quit, I just stopped.
But smoking definitely has no therapeutic value, it can only do harm.
Alcohol may have a therapeutic value (I hope so) but a low intake seems to do negligible harm, maybe none.
Many years ago I was a very heavy drinker, predominantly real ale (very rarely spirits, perhaps 4 times a year).
That was not clever.
But my doctor said that a low intake would reduce my blood pressure so reducing my use of (prescribed) drugs.
That's the background.
As a heavy drinker I was always a social drinker - but of choice.
I imagine there was peer pressure but I didn't react to it.
If I didn't want a drink I didn't have one.
But, and this is important, I *enjoyed* my booze then - and I still do.
I really believe that a couple of glasses of wine most days enhance my enjoyment of life.
I have never advocated boozing (or smoking) and I'm not doing so now.
For people who don't smoke current medical advice is not to start.
I agree.
For people who don't booze current medical advice is uncertain - except that if someone does start it should be very moderate.
That seems reasonable.
But I sometimes think of an American multimillionaire.
His life was so full of care, caring for employees, family, etc., that he was never able to *enjoy* his life.
His name was Getty.
A quote:
?Everything in excess!
To enjoy the flavour of life, take big bites.
Moderation is for monks.?
I don't entirely endorse this sentiment but it says much that I do endorse.
Alan's signature is often "Everything in moderation - except laughter."
Replace "laughter" with "enjoyment" and I'd approve of it even more than I do.
Until or unless there is general medical consensus that a moderate alcoholic intake is actually dangerous I'll probably carry on boozing.
Finally, I emphasise that this is *not* advice.
Advice is what doctors give, not me.
Take care,
Phil.
"Minimise your therbligs until it becomes automatic;
this doubles your effective lifetime -
and thereby gives time to enjoy
butterflies and kittens and rainbows."
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