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A side discussion on ethanol prompted this one.
In Finland, I think it was, Scandinavia anyway, doctors doing a long-term survey found that drinking any kind of alcohol regularly reduced the chance of a heart attack right up to the point of being a total drunkard. Eight drinks a day was the research endpoint of the long-term survey. The rate of heart attack just kept curving down as the consumption went up.
Not any Greenie, politically correct BS about red wine. Just alcohol (ethanol of course) of any brand or type. The survey data implied that stronger is better, and more is better. We are not considering all the negative side affects of drinking too much here, just what the basic data proved.
Thus far medical professionals and researchers have mixed opinions on this and do not seem to know why this happens.
Having done paint and coating tests requiring wetted surfaces professionally, and cleaning metal for hobby projects at home, not to mention high-speed tape recording heads on the Nike X project, (we had to have an alcohol license), a little bell rang in my semi-ancient brain.
Alcohol, ethanol in particular, is very good for dissolving grease. That is, if you smear animal fat on a piece of metal, ethanol will dissolve it and clean it off really well. (Bare with me here, I really am leading up to something, Chuckle.)
What is the stuff that clogs up your arteries and sends you off to the emergency room in the middle of the night? Animal fat. OK, so they call it cholesterol. Animal fat by any other name is--
The alcohol that goes into your blood stream when you drink is not hidden or modified in any way, it is just alcohol flowing through your circulatory system, and any fatty substance sticking on the vessel walls is going to be directly exposed to it. (I will not disturb you with what a medical friend of mine said about the emergency room that confirms this.)
I leave it there for your consideration.
Darryl
In Finland, I think it was, Scandinavia anyway, doctors doing a long-term survey found that drinking any kind of alcohol regularly reduced the chance of a heart attack right up to the point of being a total drunkard. Eight drinks a day was the research endpoint of the long-term survey. The rate of heart attack just kept curving down as the consumption went up.
Not any Greenie, politically correct BS about red wine. Just alcohol (ethanol of course) of any brand or type. The survey data implied that stronger is better, and more is better. We are not considering all the negative side affects of drinking too much here, just what the basic data proved.
Thus far medical professionals and researchers have mixed opinions on this and do not seem to know why this happens.
Having done paint and coating tests requiring wetted surfaces professionally, and cleaning metal for hobby projects at home, not to mention high-speed tape recording heads on the Nike X project, (we had to have an alcohol license), a little bell rang in my semi-ancient brain.
Alcohol, ethanol in particular, is very good for dissolving grease. That is, if you smear animal fat on a piece of metal, ethanol will dissolve it and clean it off really well. (Bare with me here, I really am leading up to something, Chuckle.)
What is the stuff that clogs up your arteries and sends you off to the emergency room in the middle of the night? Animal fat. OK, so they call it cholesterol. Animal fat by any other name is--
The alcohol that goes into your blood stream when you drink is not hidden or modified in any way, it is just alcohol flowing through your circulatory system, and any fatty substance sticking on the vessel walls is going to be directly exposed to it. (I will not disturb you with what a medical friend of mine said about the emergency room that confirms this.)
I leave it there for your consideration.
Darryl
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