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No alcohol safe to drink, global study confirms
A large new global study published in the Lancet has confirmed previous research which has shown that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption. The researchers admit moderate drinking may protect against heart disease but found that the risk of cancer and other diseases outweighs these protections. A study author said its findings were the most significant to date because of the range of factors considered.
The Global Burden of Disease [open, DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31310-2] [DX] study looked at levels of alcohol use and its health effects in 195 countries, including the UK, between 1990 and 2016.
Analysing data from 15 to 95-year-olds, the researchers compared people who did not drink at all with those who had one alcoholic drink a day. They found that out of 100,000 non-drinkers, 914 would develop an alcohol-related health problem such as cancer or suffer an injury. But an extra four people would be affected if they drank one alcoholic drink a day. For people who had two alcoholic drinks a day, 63 more developed a condition within a year and for those who consumed five drinks every day, there was an increase of 338 people, who developed a health problem.
One of the study authors, Prof Sonia Saxena, a researcher at Imperial College London and a practising GP, said: "One drink a day does represent a small increased risk, but adjust that to the UK population as a whole and it represents a far bigger number, and most people are not drinking just one drink a day."
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 25 2018, @07:21PM (3 children)
You have every right to speak for yourself, and from your own experience - as we all do. But, you don't have to be some kind of alcohol snob to appreciate the flavors of alcoholic beverages. I don't use the retarded nomenclature the snobs use (chocolate? in beer? WTF?) but I can describe the pleasant differences in various beverages. Rum? Sweet - sweet and mellow. The alcohol will sneak up and bite you in the ass, because you don't even taste the alcohol. Vodka generally has a bland but fiery bite. My preferred Scotch has a mellow smell and flavor like a meadow full of flowers. Pilsener beer is bland, often tasteless, and goes down like water. Ales have a definite flavor, and body - you can roll it around on your tongue and savor that flavor. Ditto with most lagers - though I've had a couple that would have passed for a pilsener pisswater.
Not a snob, at all, neither am I an alkie. I can walk into a bar, intent on having a drink, have that drink, and leave. I drank it for the flavor, as much as any other reason. There is no need, or desire, to have twelve more drinks to keep that first one company.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday August 25 2018, @08:24PM
Okay, maybe you were right about one particular case -- rum cake.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday August 25 2018, @10:03PM (1 child)
"I don't like x, so how could anyone?" - well, apparently, easily.
"I can't taste flavour z, so no one can" - just wrong.
"Beer tastes lie, shit, but I drink it anyway" - there are lots of different tasting alcoholic beverages.
"All booze tastes like shit, but I drink it anyway" - maybe stop drinking alcoholic beverages.
Also, chocolate in beer:
https://www.thespruceeats.com/best-chocolate-beer-353056 [thespruceeats.com]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 25 2018, @11:32PM
Try Crème de cacao or Tia Maria with good chocolate ice cream. Yum.
We recently inherited a small liquor cabinet, and not being drinkers we are trying various combinations...