Views on reasonable alcohol consumption have flip-flopped over the many years.
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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 accordance with 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 reasonable ingesting 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 reasonable ingesting okay? The reply, as you may count on, isn’t easy in any respect. In the present day’s studying listing explores Individuals’ altering relationship with alcohol, and what we learn about its dangers and rewards.
On Consuming
Is Reasonable Consuming Okay?
By Derek Thompson
“Each drink takes 5 minutes off your life.” Perhaps the thought scares you. Personally, I discover consolation in it.
America Has a Consuming Downside
By Kate Julian
A bit alcohol can enhance creativity and strengthen social ties. However there’s nothing reasonable, or convivial, about the best way many Individuals drink at present.
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 just lately requested readers to share a photograph of one thing that sparks their sense of awe on the planet. “A couple of years in the past we have been on a motorcycle trip close to Lake Leelanau in Michigan in November,” Melissa Gutknecht, 56, from New Haven, Connecticut, writes. “It was unseasonably heat, the leaves have been altering, and a storm was brewing. What a stupendous day.”
I’ll proceed to characteristic your responses within the coming weeks.
— Isabel