To drink or not to drink

[Foreigner]

Came across this article

Drinking on flights: Don't drink before your nap on the plane. It could hurt you now and later

Over past many years I’ve tended to avoid alcohol onboard but this article suggests to not drink prior to flight

 

[Pushka]

Came across this article

Drinking on flights: Don't drink before your nap on the plane. It could hurt you now and later

Over past many years I’ve tended to avoid alcohol onboard but this article suggests to not drink prior to flight

Maybe a few of us could test it out and check our O2 levels by oximeter when flying. I'm on a long day flight in April, I'll do the drinking part although an 8am departure isn't all that amenable for drinking. But maybe I'll check the morning readings without it and then pm readings with it.

 

[clifford]

From an awful lot of experience, I find it very hard to sleep on a plane without having a few drinks (or prescribed drugs).

Despite what others may say, I'll keep doing what I think works best for me. Alcohol is better (and certainly much more pleasant) than Rohypnol, which I used to take as a prescribed medicine.

It may kill me at some stage, but in over 70+ years it hasn't come too close.

 

[drron]

From an awful lot of experience, I find it very hard to sleep on a plane without having a few drinks (or prescribed drugs).

Despite what others may say, I'll keep doing what I think works best for me. Alcohol is better (and certainly much more pleasant) than Rohypnol, which I used to take as a prescribed medicine.

It may kill me at some stage, but in over 70+ years it hasn't come too close.

There are several community studies that show males over 70 have a longer life expectancy if they drink alcohol even at rates that are considered moderate than non drinkers.
In China it was found that 70 year olds that had given up drinking had less life expectancy than non drinkers but those who kept drinking lived longer.

Now the Americans are the wet blankets in all of this producing evidence to the contrary. But then the swedes discovered heavy drinkers who didn't exercise had a lowered life expectancy but those with regular exercise did not. Of course a lot of the US research was from Yale in CT and Harvard in MA where the weather for a lot of the year is not conducive to exercise.

So if over 70 don't give up drinking but continue to exercise.

 

[TheRealTMA]

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Errr… to quote from the article… The finding isn't a surprise, Freeman said.

Who’s paying these people? I hope it isn’t my tax money!!

 

[SCM]

Alcohol leads to poor quality sleep - that is very obvious and self-evident, if you use any sports watch like garmin, this would be obvious after a week or two of using it.

That being said, what's the point of paying or redeeming for business class if you're not going to enjoy it? What's one night of sleep anyway.