My Doctor said I should limit myself to only two two drinks a day,..... so I save them up until the weekend!

The piece is incomplete. The author of the Time Magazine story fails to mention the source of funding for this study.

Could this be another example of why Time was recently parodied by The Onion as a magazine for children?

I have only one comment: was this study done by morons?  I live in Ukraine which has the dubious distinction of being the most drunk nation on this planet.  The government admits to 20% of the population being alcoholics so you can guess what the real number is.  Men here live to 60 or less, mostly due to the alcohol and cigarettes.  Most are brain dead by 45.  Women, who smoke just as much as the men, live another 10-15 years because they don’t drink as much.  So it’s the alcohol stupid!  As a friend here tells me, alcohol is a toxic solvent.  Drink enough and it kills you.  A single drink per day may relieve some of life’s stress but any more and the stress level rises due to the fighting and agitation of dealing with the drunk’s belligerent attitude.  I would bet the author’s of this study were paid by the alcohol spirits industry.  Have we so soon forgotten the cigarette fiasco and all the experts who out and out lied?  Don’t drink ... you’ll live longer.

Thats it, I’m reforming and drinking in moderation, more often!

Yes, but they don’t remember most of that life.

This is a most astounding study.  Maybe I’ve lived so long because I have used alcohol in the past, but it seems to me that the fact that the heavy drinkers in my life have already died, from accidents, liver disease and suicide.  And one of the main reasons I gave up drinking was because I felt like if I didn’t stop, I was going to die at a very young age.  So I gave up the booze and now I feel great.

The author of this article should be ask to go
elsewhere until their level of IQ is determined.
We are told the study contained only about 1800
subjects of which approx. 63 per cent were men.
Would have been nice if we had been provided more
information about the dynamics of the study.
To say “the validity and reliability of the study
is questionable” is an understatement.  For those
of you who haven’t been exposed to research design
and statistics, “validity” ask if the study measures
what it purports to measure while “reliability” is
concerned with HOW WELL the study measures what it
purports to measure.  The assertions made from and
about the study can have negative influence upon
people reading this article.  The level of intelligence behind this article is significantly
below that expected from truthdig.

I do not know about this study…... my brother Clyde is a heavy beer drinker and he has had a few accidents with his car because the empty beer cans get stuck under the brake pedal, but Clyde says it would have been a lot worse if they were beer bottles.

Life just SEEMS longer when you’re drunk.

This study dovetails well with the study released earlier this year that showed staring at women’s breasts extended men’s lifespan.