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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 25 2018, @04:53PM (4 children)
Government is allowed to be the one organisation in society that can imposed its will at gunpoint.
When you put such an organisation in control of your health care, then that organisation is guaranteed assert itself over your lifestyle.
Statistics. How do they work?
Despite the mathematical stupidity of that comment, it just proves the point: When government is involved in health care, then the individual's lifestyle must be sacrificed for the good of the collective.
Given a choice, I'll take a Free Society over a "healthy" society.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 25 2018, @07:10PM
when you get a license to get married the products of that marriage (children) are the property of the state. the parent(or guardian) is entrusted/used by the state to provide housing for their slave. the state provides the education/indoctrination so that the child grows to be a productive and well behaved slave wherever it is most profitable (prison). IOW, any responsibility you abdicate to the government is a freedom you lose.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Weasley on Saturday August 25 2018, @08:41PM (2 children)
So your definition of freedom is being able to drink alcohol? That's kind of sad.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday August 26 2018, @03:17AM
Or maybe you have a vastly more expansive definition of freedom and my mischaracterizing it as something minuscule is a disservice?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 26 2018, @05:34AM
Freedom is choice. You may choose to drink alcohol, or not. You may choose to consume tobacco products, or not. You may choose to drive a car, or not. You may choose to - anything. Suicide? That's an option, in a free society. Suicide quickly with a firearm, or suicide slowly with tobacco and alcohol - or with fast cars, or bungee jumping, skydiving, scuba diving - CHOICE.
Personally, I think you've got to be crazy to jump out of a perfectly fine aircraft two miles up in the sky. But, because I believe in freedom, I'm not trying to make it illegal to jump out of airplanes. Now, just leave my smokes and my drinks alone, please. I'll respect your right to do your own preferred crazy shit.
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