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posted by chromas on Saturday August 25 2018, @04:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the this-news-is-terrible-and-I'm-gonna-need-a-drink dept.

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, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday August 25 2018, @07:45PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday August 25 2018, @07:45PM (#726330) Homepage

    I started drinking regularly (well, if you count 1 or 2 forties a weekend as "regular") at age 14. The first time I realized what my drinking M.O. really was was at a party...also at age fourteen. I knew the people who were throwing it and got an early start hitting the keg. By the time the party kicked in at full-blast, I was already slurring and staggering and had moved on from beer to Aftershock. I had ruined my friend's chances of getting laid in the bed of his white Ford pickup truck when I passed out there and refused to move, and later puked that red aftershock vomit all over the side of the truck (he later said that the red stain was "very difficult" to remove). When the cops had raided the party, they went easy on all of us and let us all drive through a makeshift checkpoint as long as the drivers of the vehicles were somewhat coherent.

    Riding bitch in that white single-cab truck, the cop shined his light in my face and asked me where we were going. Being a huge Metallica fan, I replied, I'm going Back to the Front! For some reason, he let us go. That cop must have been a Metallica fan.

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