WHO: No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health
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#2what, even a microgram a day? well, sod it [slurps first large g&t of the day].
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#4Is there a shortage of alcohol?
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#5No fruit juice then.
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#6So we can expect conflicting advice and maybe even some backpedaling in a few days?
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#7Neither is life, it eventually kills you.
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#9> 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. The new WHO statement clarifies: currently available evidence cannot indicate the existence of a threshold at which the carcinogenic effects of alcohol “switch on” and start to manifest in the human body.
The headline is not accurate it looks like. The article states that we don’t know if occasional drinking is harmful. And it makes sense we don’t know, because you can’t do an effective longitudinal study where you compare very light drinking to no drinking because the expected effect size is small and all the confounders will muddy the water.
Toasted bread and cinnamon are carcinogenic but I can’t imagine a WHO headline asserting that “no amount of cinnamon is safe for your health”.
Re: WHO: No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health
#10Saving you a click: https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...