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The glass of wine is likely due to a selection bias in Tea Total people. Most people who are completely sober, are so either because they are recovering alcoholics, or have other health issues.

Most people who are healthy and have no prior alcoholism issues drink at least occasionaly, which introduces a selection bias favouring people with health issues as strict non drinkers, which causes not drinking at all to be correlated with worse health than drinking occasionally.

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TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Idk… a lot of gen Z people I know just don’t drink at all

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- tmyakal@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  OP is referring to the j-curve historically seen in studies about drinking. Because researchers didn’t control for people who stopped drinking after years of abuse or people who couldn’t drink because of other health issues, it looked like having 0 drinks per day led to worse health outcomes than 1-2 drinks per day. Because of that, many health organizations spent decades telling people that 1-2 drinks per day was better for you than 0 drinks per day.
  
  Someone finally controlled for those variables a few years ago, and the j-curve vanished. Most health organizations now say they’re is no amount of alcohol that is safe to consume.
  
  So it’s got nothing to do with Gen Z drinking habit specifically, and the science has been corrected since. But a lot of people still internalized and parrot the “1-2 drinks is healthy” thing.
  
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  - jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    No amount of alcohol is safe? Is that like saying no amount of driving is safe?
    
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    Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    Sure. Any driving you do increases your risk of death. But it’s likely you need to drive for other reasons that reduce your risk of death (like buying food).
    
    Drinking is different because no one needs to drink.
    
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    Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    alcohol is driving?
    
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- TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  because they can’t afford it.
  
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- porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah but these (usually flawed) studies that have wormed their way into the public consciousness were done long before gen z was drinking age. From up-to-date information it’s pretty clear that any amount of any kind of alcohol is quite bad for you. Obviously increasing with quantity.
  
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