I wasn't advocating not drinking. I drink myself. I was just sharing the latest scientific research so that people are aware of the price they pay.
I should add though that, just becuse a lot of cultures, including the 'western' ones that many here come from, drink alcohol, we shouldn't generalise from this perspective. A significant proportion of the inhabitants of this planet don't drink for cultural and religious reasons. So, with just a little bit of thought we can imagine living in a way which doesn't need alcohol to have fun.
Also, just because something has been part of a culture for a long time, we shouldn't assume that this means it ought to always be that way ( see slavery, no sanitation, feudal servitude, to name a few of a multitude of examples.)
Though, to give a more closely related and recent example, if you'd asked people in the 70's if smoking tabacco was cool and a good thing for having fun, the responses would be very much like those now with alcohol.
It will be the next generations that decide what's a healthy and cool way to have fun. They'll probably all be vaporising herbal marijuana, dabbing listening to dubstep and will think alcohol is dirty and what old people use to have fun.
That said, I choose to have a drink now and then but am happy to also not bury my head in the sand, realising that there are almost certainly better alternative ways to live for both social, health , and other reasons.
Cheers!
