According to a paper published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, alcohol may lead to car accidents and liver disease; however, it turned out that abstaining from drinking alcohol shortens one’s life expectancy.
That’s what six researchers led by psychologist Charles Holahan of the University of Texas at Austin discovered in 2010, and their study took a variety of external factors into account.
In the details, the team monitored 1,824 people between the ages of 55 and 65 over the course of 20 years.
Participants were classified as heavy drinkers, moderate drinkers or abstainers.
In this context, the mortality rate proved the highest for the last group (abstainers), with 69 percent of them dying after 20 years, compared to 60 percent of heavy drinkers and just 41 percent of moderate drinkers.
What’s more shocking about these results is that it didn’t matter what kind of people the abstainers were.
However, the study suggests one similarity among all groups; if one doesn’t drink, that person is significantly less at peace with his or her life than people who do.
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