ALCOHOL: The Good, the Bad, and the Bubbly

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Humans have been imbibing for thousands of years. What has drinking contributed to society? What is it doing to our health? Guests: Edward Slingerland (”Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization”) and Susan Dominus (”Is That Drink Worth It to You?”) 🎙️ Check out Edward’s previous appearance on the show here 📱 Download the Next Big Idea Club app and use code PODCAST to get 20% off: https://nextbigideaclub.com/app/

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:05.0	I'm Rufus Griskum and I'm Caleb Bissinger.
0:09.0	And this is the next big idea.
0:11.0	Today is alcohol of virtue is a device or a little bit of both. So Caleb, it was your birthday yesterday.
0:35.0	It was, thank you for remembering.
0:37.0	And did you have a few drinks to celebrate?
0:40.0	I did. I probably, I maybe had too many many if I'm being honest. Uh oh and you you
0:46.2	turned 33 right old man I could have done the math because I know you were born in 1991 which was a big it was a big year for me
0:57.8	It's when I graduated from college and it's also when I saw a 60 minute segment that I don't want to say it changed my life, but it definitely enhanced it.
1:08.0	Why is it that the French who eat as much or more fat than we do suffer fewer heart attacks even though they smoke
1:15.2	more and exercise less.
1:17.8	The explanation of the paradox may lie in this inviting glass.
1:23.2	It's well documented that a moderate intake of alcohol
1:27.1	prevent for corner heart disease
1:29.6	by as much as 50%.
1:31.4	I mean this is 50%. 50% when you say a moderate intake of alcohol with
1:36.2	meals what do you mean I mean a few glasses of wine per day if you're just sticking to that you will never get any adverse
1:46.1	effect of this intake of alcohol. You were not the only one influenced by that peace rufous more than 20 million American households tuned in
1:57.0	And then they went wine shopping
1:58.7	Within a year red wine sales shot up 39%.
2:03.4	And in the three decades that followed,
2:05.3	the correlation between red wine and good health
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