{"id":543,"date":"2015-02-12T19:57:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T19:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2015-02-12T19:57:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T19:57:26","slug":"moderate-drinking-allowance-low-says-last-honest-scientist-planet-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/moderate-drinking-allowance-low-says-last-honest-scientist-planet-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderate Drinking Allowance Too Low,\u00a0Says Last Honest Scientist On Planet Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

OSLO\u2014Following decades of research as an alcohol expert for the World Health Organization, maverick scientist Dr. Kari Poikolainen says drinking 1.3 bottles of wine a day not only won\u2019t harm your health, it will allow you to outlive abstainers.<\/p>\n

Flying in the face of attempts to lower the definition of moderate drinking, Dr. Poikolainen said: \u2018The weight of the evidence shows moderate drinking is better than abstaining,\u201d and \u201cthe moderate amounts can be higher than the guidelines say.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Teetotaler Bloc was quick to respond with unhinged vitriol. Without presenting a shred of contrary evidence, Julia Manning of the neoprohibitionist think-tank 2020Health snarled, \u201cAlcohol is a toxin, the risks outweigh the benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OSLO\u2014Following decades of research as an alcohol expert for the World Health Organization, maverick scientist Dr. Kari Poikolainen says drinking 1.3 bottles of wine a day not only won\u2019t harm your health, it will allow you to outlive abstainers. Flying in the face of attempts to lower the definition of moderate drinking, Dr. Poikolainen said: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[55,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brutalhammer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}