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ealth fascists and teetotallers if

_ Dost. thou think, because thou art “virtuous, there shall be no more _cakes‘and ale? — Twelfth Night.

"ANYONE WITH any sense oe knew it all along. And that: - ~ must include you, esteemed reader, otherwise you | wouldn’t be reading this col- /umn. ° pee

“What we knew was that alcohol

"can be good for you, even though ":

. the health fascists try to tell you

“otherwise. e,

“That news has not been widely

broadcast. The “no cakes and ale” -:

folk are everywhere and don’t want to encourage people i in bad ways...

"Can you imagine the CBC Prime - Time News starting out with the .

af news that a drop of what ' you fancy.

_does you good?:

:.But the Suriday Telegraph has 1

si «that Sir Richard Doil, Britain’s : ©

~ leading epidemiologist, declares — “that the healthiest men are non-"

~: ‘smokers drinking between 20 and

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(29 units of alcoho! a week. ; ‘

He’ came to that conclusion after’

“studying: the habits of 13,000 doc-~ tors over a period of.13 years: And: ~ in case. you’ re wondering what a “unit” is, it is one glass of wine, ‘half a pint of | beer or.one: ‘shot of spirits.’ “How many units did! have last

7 _ week? Grey Eyes says it was

a “more than 29,” on account of how my gin and tonics are not poured . for midgets. But I say there’s no point in having a G & Tif. you can’t taste the gin. oo" 5

Before these happy tidings “broke, British Health Fascist pro- ' paganda had it that the safety limit was 21 units a week for men and. ', 14 for women. But John Duffy of . Edinburgh University’s Alcohol :- ‘Research Group, says those limits “are ridiculous and arbitrary.” .

. You’re no duffer, Duffy, and I >. plan to visit Edinburgh some time

‘and stand you a drink.

! . Duffy and Doll are not alone. ‘Others have come forward with the game story.

“Professor Thorkild Sorenson of

-j the Copenhagen Institute of

‘. Preventive Medicine has found that the mortality rate for those who drink up to 69 units a week is equal -to the rate for tectotallers. -

“In other words, teetotallers are’ suffering for nothing. Serves them right. ‘The good news keeps coming . but we’ve only had squibs of it. It has made our papers, for “instance, that the French have:

found that red wine imbibers have fewer heart attacks than non-red

- wine imbibers.

But now the British Medical ~

Journal states that four drinks in

the evening reduces the risk of heart trouble. '

We are also told that, although | the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons had set the previous

“recommended limit of 14/21 units,

there had never becn any research showing that 14 or 21 units jwere either safe or harmful. -

Which is to say that drinkers who took any notice of health fas- cism have been tricked and bam-

‘boozled. -

Also in the Telegraph, under the

» headline “Mud in their lies”, it was

reported that there is no proven link between booze and violence. And violence has been a major weapon in the fight to persuade the innocent that liquor i isan Evil Empire.

The report stated: “A study of Canadian heavy drinkers by Dr.. :

_, Kai Pernanen found over-con-

sumption did not lead to Eghts and

“66 ...our media are

stuffed with would- ' be social workers | who belong to the. ‘Health Fascism

- Party and think that —

such facts are dangerous: ?

bar-wrecking, It was followed -

. more usually by laughter, hugging

and backslapping. When very,

“drunk, people were not'so much « warlike as incapacitated. ”

Exactly. I knew it all along. But why'do I have to read the! foreign’ press to get this kind of news — even when Canada features in it?

It’s because our media are -

stuffed with would-be social work-: ’

ers who belong to the Health -

". Fascism Party and think that such ” * facts are dangerous, that’s why.

_It is true, of course, that some’

people who get drunk also get vio- . -lent, but it was found that most of

them had records of violence . before they started drinking. It isn’t only British researchers

who are moving out from under the -

“booze is always bad for you”

. Cloud. The American Journal of ._ Public Health says that three or —. - four drinks a day may reduce the

severity of common colds. _— Eknew that all along, too. It’s just what my old dad always used

_to say.

For those to ‘whom all this is

bad news rather than good, no one ©

is claiming that booze can’t be bad for you. Bottle-a-day folk are on a slippery slope. And no one jis say-

ing it’s OK to drink and drive.

But in fairness-to booze it must be suid that even butter can be bad for you. Swatlow a pound of the stuff and your eyes will pop out.

All things in moderation. Yea, ,

“even unto 29 units. Or 69, if you

want to live as long as a teetotaller. Cheers! Skol! Prosit! And mud

-in their lies!

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