[Polar Bear]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

If one has to have it in moderation, for enjoyment, it sounds like an addiction. Just the fact that you have to have it periodically is very telling. There are alcoholics who only get drunk on weekends. Are they not still alcoholics? If you think it's not an addiction, try not having it anymore and see what happens.

All this just from somebody saying they do something in "moderation"?? To say that's a stretch is a moderate understatement at the very least.

[BarryRX]

I'm a vegetarian, but I'm not a fanatic about it......I eat meat!

[jimbo2012]

then U R not

[Polar Bear]

Originally Posted by jimbo2012

No, it's fact

To you I do believe it's fact.

[Polar Bear]

Originally Posted by BarryRX

I'm a vegetarian, but I'm not a fanatic about it......I eat meat!

So you're a Steve Martin vegetarian...he always said: "I'm a vegetarian. Oh sure...I have a cheeseburger now and then." :^)

[jblum315]

There are alcoholics who Never get drunk because they are sipping alcohol in very small amounts from the time they wake up until they go to bed again. I think Winston Churchill was one such.

[Villages PL]

Originally Posted by Polar Bear

All this just from somebody saying they do something in "moderation"?? To say that's a stretch is a moderate understatement at the very least.

Stretching is good for you, in moderation of course.

[Villages PL]

Originally Posted by jblum315

There are alcoholics who Never get drunk because they are sipping alcohol in very small amounts from the time they wake up until they go to bed again. I think Winston Churchill was one such.

Yes, that's a good example of the so called moderation that everyone talks about. I have cousins who sip alcohol all evening long but never appear to be drunk. A popular ex-president was a good example of someone practicing moderation as he popped an occasional jelly-bean during the day and had a few drinks in the evening. It's always considered moderate to the person who's addicted. Another (former) president was fond of consuming fast food and, although it seemed moderate, it led to him having a heart bypass operation.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by jblum315

There are alcoholics who Never get drunk because they are sipping alcohol in very small amounts from the time they wake up until they go to bed again. I think Winston Churchill was one such.

Would you call that moderate drinking, or drinking moderately?

[Villages PL]

The most important change he made, since the bypass, was to stop eating processed junk, and he seems to be doing well. I think Jimbo said he became a vegan or vegitarian. When people don't change their diet after a bypass, their arteries usually get clogged up again.