Today's paper held a disturbing story about alcohol intake: For Women, the Wineglass is Half Full. For someone like me, who loves a glass (or sometimes two) of wine at night, the article suggests that such habits might increase the risk of breast cancer by 10 to 40 percent. That's enough to make me substitute my pinot grigio with club soda tonight.
It also raises the larger question of dealing with risk. There's been so much talk about the danger of plastics. How is it even possible to deal with this problem? I bring my lunch to work almost very day in a (plastic) tupperware container. On my way out the door this morning, I was frantically trying to compare the number on the bottom of my container to the chart in the paper that shows which number correlates with which type of plastic. I'm pretty sure mine was on the "do not use" list.
And now I really need a glass of wine to deal with the stress of all that.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
To drink or not to drink
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As Barry Glessner writes, I tend to think that we live in a culture of fear and, as I've been saying for years, you can't live your life worrying about what might happen. Because that's not living at all.
I am resigned to the fact by now that everything is either bad or dangerous for me.
I just don't put too much stock in it. I mean, do I want to live forever?
I haven't read the wine article yet, but that's a disturbing finding! But still- we have to think of all the French people who have been consuming so much wine for so long- and I don't think they're seeing huge rates of breast cancer! So I don't know. I say we still go for the glass of "Mommy's Time Out."
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