Neither is life, it eventually kills you.
Birthdays are especially dangerous, I hear.
WHO: No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health
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#13So we can expect conflicting advice and maybe even some backpedaling in a few days?
The news is already a month old.
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#14Ethanol is metabolized to acetaldehyde in the body.
Acetaldehyde causes DNA damage.
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#15> To identify a “safe” level of alcohol consumption, valid scientific evidence would need to demonstrate that at and below a certain level, there is no risk of illness or injury associated with alcohol consumption
that's such a broken premise that everything that comes after that must be broken as well.
We could prove, using the same logic, that "no level of life consumption is safe for our health"
It is impossible to prove that everyone's injuries over the course of an entire life are not associated with being alive.
edit: meanwhile car accidents in my country are responsible for 12 deaths every 100,000 people every year. Avoidable deaths. Please WHO go back to being a reliable source of good information and not an "ora et labora" kind of publication.
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#16Ethanol is metabolized to acetaldehyde in the body. Acetaldehyde causes DNA damage. https://academic.oup.com/carcin/article/43/1/52/6373372
UV too.
So basically direct exposure to Sun light should be avoided.
edit: UV do cause DNA damage, so following the same logic, no amount of Sun light can be considered safe. Which is true, but the effects are usually negligible, so, as usual, common sense is your best friend.
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#17No fruit juice then.
You mean fruit-flavoured sugary water? Better eat an actual fruit.
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#18So we can expect conflicting advice and maybe even some backpedaling in a few days?
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#19No fruit juice then.
Good idea. Pointless calories
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#20Is there a shortage of alcohol?
Ethanol is one of the easiest things to synthesize, also found in outer space. So, no.