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'Drinking is healthy for lazy smokers'
"Drinking can be good for your heart. But you have to be a lazy smoker with an aversion to fruit and vegetables to reap the full benefits." Wahey!!
In what the Sydney Morning Herald describe as the 'most unfair medical finding this year,' a UK scientist has apparently discovered that "smokers with the worst diets and poorest exercise habits could consume as many as 14 standard drinks a week," and still lower their risk of heart disease compared to not drinking at all.
According to Michael Marmot, who conducted the study, the lazy, unhealthy smokers can't just increase the amount they drink in the hope it will reduce their heart-attack risk, as "Greater quantities were less beneficial, though still better for those people than being teetotal."
The much healthier non-smokers who eat properly and drink moderately (compared to not at all) put themselves at a higher risk of heart disease, but that their 'absolute risk' was still obviously much lower. "Drinking can be good for your heart. But you have to be a lazy smoker with an aversion to fruit and vegetables to reap the full ... more -
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