Is it time for the W.O.W. to allow some alcohol drinking...?

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_jon
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Is it time for the W.O.W. to allow some alcohol drinking...?

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While alcohol remains a major cause of liver disease, according to the report by the International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research, it is excessive alcohol that does the damage.

Frequent but moderate alcohol consumption can reduce the chances of fatty liver – the cause of many diseases – by up to 60 per cent, it said.

This was far more effective than drinking nothing at all and even better than light drinking, but only occasionally.

The research, conducted in Japan, recorded the drinking habits of 9,885 men.

(From today's Daily Telegraph online)
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Re: Is it time for the W.O.W. to allow some alcohol drinking...?

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It's time for the LDS Church to bring the WOW back to its original intent - as a list of suggested health practices, not a Pharisaical attempt to enforce prohibition-era politics.
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Buffalo wrote:It's time for the LDS Church to bring the WOW back to its original intent - as a list of suggested health practices, not a Pharisaical attempt to enforce prohibition-era politics.

What? And stop exerting religious control over their members?

Never! It's a slippery slope. You let them make informed decisions for themselves, and the next thing you know, people in financial trouble will stop paying tithing, and then where would the church be?
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mild barley drinks and wine were OK for Joseph Smith. it is all about control, fear and guilt.
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