Wellness

[bargainsgirl]

Are you giving up a cocktail due to the lastest advisory?  I have one or two coctails per week and will not be giving them up.  Everything we eat, drink and do has risks so I will take my chances.  At my age (71) I want to enjoy my life...as I please.

[goldensrbest]

Not something i do,except for holidays.

[walker]

@bargainsgirl ...I agree....I am in my 70's and enjoy a glass of wine....not giving it up.  I also want to enjoy life and not worry about everything. Now people suffer from anxiety problems.   As you said everything has its risks.  My mother lived to 100 and used to say "something's going to get me"!  She used to have a drink of 1 oz. Scotch with water over ice before dinner and a glass of wine with dinner.  Go figure!  This routine changed the last few years of her life in a retirement community. 😟 

As the saying goes....anything in moderation...including moderation. 😊

[OKPrincess]

We drink wine most evenings 🍷

and a margarita when we go to a Mexican restaurant. 

[kaydee50]

At the age of 75 I have no intention of giving up my wine, beer, vodka or rum, all in moderation.  When I get "anxious" a glass of wine helps me more than any pill could.

OT--my mother smoked for 50+ years at times almost a pack a day.  She lived to be 98 and died from dementia--nothing else physically wrong with her.

So I would do what I enjoy and not worry about it--JMHO!

[RetRN]

It's a choice, everyone can do as they please. Life is filled with risks everyday.

[Still Raining]

Tobacco and obesity have a higher risk profile.  For me, one or two drinks a week just does not set off alarm bells.

[jubilant]

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@kaydee50 wrote:

At the age of 75 I have no intention of giving up my wine, beer, vodka or rum, all in moderation.  When I get "anxious" a glass of wine helps me more than any pill could.

OT--my mother smoked for 50+ years at times almost a pack a day.  She lived to be 98 and died from dementia--nothing else physically wrong with her.

So I would do what I enjoy and not worry about it--JMHO!

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@kaydee50   I get this... but kind of at the opposite end of the wheel one might say. I am also 75. My neurologist asked me if I smoked  ...I said no and she asked again at which time my husband said NO!

She has never smoked! I asked her why she kept asking?  She told me "because you have the brain xrays of someone who has smoked for 40 yrs"!  I do have an occasional glass of wine and don't intend to give it up!

[beckyb1012]

Nope, I gave up cigarettes in 1997 and that was quite enough in my book. 

I am very good at doing shots even in my 60's. 

[Kachina624]

I have no objection to alcohol, have it in my house but it's just not part of my life and I never even think about partaking.   I think I last had a glass of wine 10 or 12 years ago.