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I would like to know if, health wise, it’s the same to drink 2 drinks per day or four every second day (excluding the obvious short term effects)
4 every second day has much better effects on my mental health.
I’m a social drinker, so I’m more likely to drink “some” drinks once a week than a little every day. The latter is really not appealing!
Agreed. Also mathematically that's "a couple of beers:"
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Thanks for the chuckle! Considering the health advise is specifically about two beers, saying a couple in context seemed confusing. Thus the quotation marks.
A lot of these studies will ask “In the last X weeks how many drinks have you had” then they normalize that, so I doubt there’s much distinction in the studies.
I guess what I’m saying is the studies typically won’t make a distinction on that.
Which feels like it leaves a lot out of the picture to me.
On an average week, where I don't go to a party, I'm not on vacation, etc. I'm probably averaging out to less than 2 drinks a week.
When I try to factor in those parties and such, even with some pretty generous estimates, I barely average out to 1 drink a day.
Of course when I do have those parties and such, I probably go above that average for that particular day/week.
And I feel like there could be some pretty significant differences between someone who is actually having a beer or two or three almost every day, and someone like me who drinks little or no alcohol for most of the year, but does get a bit drunk at a party a handful of times a year.
Both might be pretty similar in terms of total average alcohol consumption, but the pattern is obviously pretty different.
And I'm not saying that one or the other is necessarily any more or less harmful, but you never really see the data broken down like that and if they're not looking into it with that sort of detail, I feel like that's leaving themselves open to really miss something important.