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07-13-2008, 12:45 PM | #21 |
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No, not anecdotal but basically a survey -- asking people how often they drink and whether or not they have or subsequently develop coronary artery disease. It's not the best evidence because association does not equal causation. For example, I'm sure people in Utah who drink coffee develop lung cancer at a higher rate than people who don't drink coffee -- that's because they also are more likely to smoke. Drinking coffee in Utah is associated with developing lung cancer but it's not the cause. That's the problem with observational studies.
The strongest level of evidence would be to randomly assign 1000 people to drink moderately and 1000 people to not drink at all and then follow them for decades for the development of coronary artery disease. With alcohol, for obvious reasons, people don't want to enroll in a study like that. |
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This is like saying Mozart has too many notes or Dostoyevski is a slow read.
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Think about this. The roots of the Word of Wisdom lie in Martin Luther's revolt against the Renaissance.
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no the roots are emma not wanting to clean up tobacco
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