Comment on It's impossible to defend any amount of alcohol consumption without sounding like an alcoholic.
earphone843@sh.itjust.works 6 days agoNot being healthy is by definition causing harm.
Comment on It's impossible to defend any amount of alcohol consumption without sounding like an alcoholic.
earphone843@sh.itjust.works 6 days agoNot being healthy is by definition causing harm.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You are thinking of unhealthy. Between healthy and unhealthy are neutral things that our body simply processes and expels as long as we don’t get oo much. The whole point of discouraging any consumption of alcoholic drinks is to counter the myths that alcohol provides health benefits.
A small amount of alcohol on occasion doesn’t cause harm to the body. It is processed and expelled. That is why fermented foods, which contain trace amounts of alcohol, are not unhealthy.
Most spices aren’t healthy in the way that the majority of people use the word for food. They don’t provide nutrients our bodies need. Pepper doesn’t improve our health, but it doesn’t harm us either in reasonable quantities. It is something our body simply expels, just like small amounts of many other things that our body processes and expels.
The point is that the level of alcohol that is not harmful is really low compared to what people think.