Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Drinking Half-A-Pint Of Beer Daily Can Increase Your Longevity, Claims Study!

 


I'm not sure my doctor would agree. Still, though, it might not be a bad as they say. And two pints good too - even better news. 

Ask anyone and they will instantly tell you that alcohol is bad for health and can be lead to multiple health issues. But a new study claims that this may not be entirely true. If you are a hardcore beer lover, this news will bring a wide grin on your face. Researchers have found that drinking half-a-pint of beer daily can increase your longevity.


Times of India 


Drinking Half-A-Pint Of Beer Daily Can Increase Your Longevity, Claims Study!otostory/74321259.cms



9 comments:

Andrew Anderson said...

Ask anyone and they will instantly tell you that alcohol is bad for health ...

Only those ignorant of the Bible since, for example:

Men prepare a meal for enjoyment, and wine makes life merry, and money is the answer to everything. Ecclesiastes 10:19 [bold added]

Btw, some "Christians" insist the wine in the Bible is mere unfermented grape juice but did grape juice ever make you merry?

The lesson here is that you'll never truly understand what "believing" is until you read the Bible yourself, All OF IT.

Peter Pan said...

What's the catch?

Kaivey said...

It keeps me awake at night. I would have two pints every night and it was glorious, but I gave it up in the end.

Peter Pan said...

What if you have 2 pints in the morning?

Ahmed Fares said...

Andrew says: "The lesson here is that you'll never truly understand what "believing" is until you read the Bible yourself, All OF IT."

Don't forget to read Ezekiel 23:20

BibleGateway - Ezekiel 23:20

Kaivey said...

Drinking half pint is really hard, because you just want the other one and half pints as well.

Peter Pan said...

Is the glass half empty or half full when its a half pint?

Andrew Anderson said...

Don't forget to read Ezekiel 23:20 Ahmed Fares

For starters that little girl is reading from the New Testament (at the end of the Bible). But Ezekiel is in the Old Testament (at the front of the Bible). Liar much?

And so what if Man's Creator is frank about sex and lust?

And what farm child doesn't learn about animal sex at an early age anyway?

Ahmed Fares said...

Andrew writes: "And so what if Man's Creator is frank about sex and lust?"

That's assuming that all these are the words of Ezekiel. This from Wikipedia:

The Book of Ezekiel describes itself as the words of the Ezekiel ben-Buzi, a priest living in exile in the city of Babylon between 593 and 571 BC. Most scholars today accept the basic authenticity of the book, but see in it significant additions by a "school" of later followers of the original prophet. According to Jewish tradition, the Men of the Great Assembly wrote the Book of Ezekiel, based on the prophet's words. While the book exhibits considerable unity and probably reflects much of the historic Ezekiel, it is the product of a long and complex history and does not necessarily preserve the very words of the prophet.

What that means is that you have to take these stories with a grain of salt. This is also true for the New Testament. Take for example, Paul's Epistle to The Ephesians. Wikipedia again:

Biblical scholar Harold Hoehner, surveying 279 commentaries written between 1519 and 2001, found that 54% favored Pauline authorship, 39% concluded against Pauline authorship and 7% remained uncertain. Norman Perrin and Dennis C. Duling found that of six authoritative scholarly references, "four of the six decide for pseudonymity, and the other two (Peake's Commentary on the Bible and the Jerome Biblical Commentary) recognize the difficulties in maintaining Pauline authorship. Indeed, the difficulties are insurmountable."Bible scholar Raymond E. Brown asserts that about 80% of critical scholarship judges that Paul did not write Ephesians.

That's before you even get to the idea that some of these things are meant to be taken literally, some as allegory, and some as both.

As an aside, please do not think that I am trying to rattle your faith here. That's not my intent. I will however cause you to think about things at a deeper level.