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Betty White says vodka and hot dogs have helped her make it to 95The mythical Fountain of Youth isnt made of water, after all, but vodka at least, according to Betty White.
The famously spry 95-year-old gave good news to those struggling to make it through Dry January by offering some sage insight into her longevity.
She told Parade magazine that she loves vodka and hot dogs, probably in that order.
She may be on to something a recent study found that adults who were moderate drinkers were more than 20 percent less likely to die early of any cause.
White, who will celebrate her 96th birthday later this month, added that shes also made it through more than nine decades by embracing optimism.
Enjoy life. Accentuate the positive, not the negative. It sounds so trite, but a lot of people will pick out something to complain about, rather than say, Hey, that was great! Its not hard to find great stuff if you look, she said.
The Golden Girls star has been a Hollywood staple for more than 70 years, and her career shows no signs of slowing down; she recently appeared in a brief role on the Freeform sitcom Young & Hungry.
With so many years in front of the camera under her belt, White explained that shes learned that Hollywood success is actually simpler than some may think.
Do your work, learn your lines and come in prepared, she said. Dont think you can wing it, because you cant. Were in show business, which is fun, but take your business seriously, because it is a serious business.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,634 posts)OhZone
(3,212 posts)I partake occasionally but ita not that good for ya. Oh well.
hermetic
(8,328 posts)People who drink moderately live longer on average than teetotalers or those who drink to excess. There are over 20 studies that confirm this. Lack of discussion of the beneficial impact of alcohol has for years been a systematic policy of the U.S. public health establishment. For instance, the National Institutes of Health, which funded a research study on alcohol, forbade a Harvard epidemiologist who participated in the study from publishing the health benefits of drinking!
Use of alcohol may protect against dementia. He cites the 2008 Research Society on Alcoholism Review based on the Whitehall Study which analyzed 45 reports since the early 1990s.This showed that there were significantly reduced risks of dementia from moderate drinking.
According to research, even serious drinkers, the ones who drink six or more drinks daily, still live longer than teetotalers! Puritans cant stand this fact.
www.docgiff.com
Science.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,634 posts)OhZone
(3,212 posts)Who disowned me because Im lesbian.
Also all the "moderate" alcohol users I know look older than their age to me.
Pure anecdotal evidence I know but I see what it does to people.
hermetic
(8,328 posts)That sucks and I know from personal experience that it sure informs a person's opinions about drinking.
Wishing you the best.
OhZone
(3,212 posts)Alcoholic beverages are classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a Group 1 carcinogen (carcinogenic to humans). ... 3.6% of all cancer cases and 3.5% of cancer deaths worldwide are attributable to consumption of alcohol (also known formally as ethanol).
Alcohol and cancer - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/.../Alcohol_an...
EllenlogRL
(16 posts)Hot dogs are full of all kinds of weird crap and toxic chemicals as well. There was some study that showed eating processed meat is as bad as cigarettes.
OhZone
(3,212 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,247 posts)Its not every day that a group of the nations top cancer doctors asks people to curb their drinking.
In a statement released Tuesday, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) outlined research tying alcohol to two types of cancer and told Americans to drink less.
ASCO believes that a proactive stance by the Society to minimise excessive exposure to alcohol has important implications for cancer prevention, the statement, which was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, said.
This is the first time the organisation has taken a stance on alcohol and cancer, but it is not the first time the research has found strong links between the two.
This summer, two major research groups found strong evidence that drinking alcohol as little as one glass of wine or beer a day increases the risk of developing both pre- and postmenopausal breast cancer. For that report, scientists from the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund looked at 119 studies from around the globe and incorporated data from roughly 12 million women as well as some 260,000 cases of breast cancer.
The US Department of Health and Human Services lists alcohol as a known human carcinogen. Research highlighted by the National Cancer Institute suggests that the more alcohol you drink particularly the more you drink regularly the higher your risk of developing cancer.
More: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/alcohol-cancer-risk-studies-doctors-say-drink-less-2017-11?r=US&IR=T