Views on average alcohol consumption have flip-flopped over the a long time.
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“Alcohol ambivalence has been with us for nearly so long as alcohol,” my colleague Derek Thompson wrote this week. He notes that in response to the Greek comedian poet Eubulus, of the fourth century B.C.E., “though two bowls of wine introduced ‘love and pleasure,’ 5 led to ‘shouting,’ 9 led to ‘bile,’ and 10 produced outright ‘insanity, in that it makes individuals throw issues.’”
However views on average consuming have flip-flopped a number of instances since then. Derek spent days poring over the analysis to attempt to reply a seemingly easy query: Is average consuming okay? The reply, as you would possibly anticipate, is just not easy in any respect. Right now’s studying record explores People’ altering relationship with alcohol, and what we find out about its dangers and rewards.
On Consuming
Is Reasonable Consuming Okay?
By Derek Thompson
“Each drink takes 5 minutes off your life.” Possibly the thought scares you. Personally, I discover consolation in it.
America Has a Consuming Downside
By Kate Julian
A bit of alcohol can increase creativity and strengthen social ties. However there’s nothing average, or convivial, about the way in which many People drink as we speak.
Not Simply Sober-Curious, however Neo-Temperate
By Shayla Love
How sobriety went from a radical social motion to a device of self-optimization
Nonetheless Curious?
Different Diversions
P.S.
I lately requested readers to share a photograph of one thing that sparks their sense of awe on this planet. “A couple of years in the past we had been on a motorcycle experience close to Lake Leelanau in Michigan in November,” Melissa Gutknecht, 56, from New Haven, Connecticut, writes. “It was unseasonably heat, the leaves had been altering, and a storm was brewing. What a phenomenal day.”
I’ll proceed to function your responses within the coming weeks.
— Isabel