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Alcohol is the root of 62 diseases and a partial cause of dozens more
(hsph.harvard.edu)
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So you're telling me without alcohol I could have spent my life picking berries before I died of a toothache at 25? And instead I'm reading excel sheets and will die a prolonged death after years of chemo at 85?
Damn alcohol really is the cause of all my problems...
No one is forcing you to brush your teeth.
True, but its illegal for me to wander my neighborhood and pick berries from "private property"
Realistically, if you eat out of trash cans you'll have the same experience, and if you're quiet and neat, no one will report you.
Found the racoon
We prefer “opportunistic omnivore” but yes
The "dying at 25" thing is the result of a common misrepresentation of data. Infant mortality rates were significantly higher in the past, so the average gets thrown off. But, if you remove those data points (to reflect post-infancy mortality), you'd be living roughly the same amount of time.