Study Puts Uppity Joggers, Vegans in Their Place

Published on Tuesday, October 28, 2008, by James Norton / Edit Post

An Australian study reveals that while smokers smoke to cope, (moderate) drinkers drink to celebrate. The survey, which interviewed 2,000 Australians in April, found that respondents who consumed up to three drinks a day were happier than those who never drank.

Naturally, this sort of thing raises a bunch of correlation/causation, chicken/egg questions. For example, it’s entirely possible that happy, well-adjusted people have lots of friends and therefore lots of opportunities to hang out and drink moderately.

Also revealed by this survey, now among my personal favorites: Exercise is good stuff, but there’s no need to go hog-wild with it. Survey author and Deakin University professor Bob Cummins said that “those who did a moderate amount of exercise—three times a week—had enhanced wellbeing, but there was no added benefit to more frequent exercise.”

There you go, folks: Bust out the Kwak and the shuffleboard, and get happy.

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  • Why the hate on vegans? Is it because you all are guilty when environmentalists urge consumers to reduce meat consumption and Michael Pollan doles out advice like "Eat food. Not a lot. Mostly plants" ? :-)

  • What exactly does this have to do with vegans? As a former meat eater, I understand poking fun at veggies. But this post has nothing to do with vegans.

  • Luniz, go have three drinks and come back. The study was talking about health not the material benefits to serious athletic endeavor, and the author was being cheeky.

  • yea winning gold medals, scholarships to division 1 schools, strongman competitions, none of those are worth more than 3 hours of exercise. stupid.