Alcohol and Cancer - Surgeon General’s Warning

If we started and stopped everything that epidemiology recommended, our diets would change all the time. Meat is good. Meat is bad. Eggs are good. Eggs are bad. The fact that there’s no consistency proves there’s no there, there. I would not force myself to eat or drink anything I didn’t like based on theoretical health benefits.

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Anecdotal data here.

It’s always seemed to me that some of the people I knew who got certain cancers young, also had an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. This study doesn’t surprise me.

I don’t think you need to be an alcoholic to have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. You can be an alcoholic but there are plenty of people I know who like more than a beer or two. On a consistent basis.

Not all, but there are people I suspected or wondered if alcohol had a negative impact on their cancers. I’m also not taking about someone who has a genetic mutation for cancer such as a BRCA1 or 2 gene.

I also don’t think that anything in moderation is bad. A drink every so often or red meat or high sodium food. Or fried food. Not all the time but moderation is fine. In my opinion of course!

I’m not going to change my consumption habits. Which are a glass or two, mostly on vacation. An occasional dinner. Not even every week or even every month.

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We already knew how bad it is for your body and had decided before this article we were cutting back. Me, maybe half. I imagine the same as DH.

I like to drink. I typically have 2 of something on Friday and Saturday. Occasionally on a Sunday. I’d say 4-5 drinks most weekends and sometimes 7 if we have cocktails before dinner on Sunday. We don’t need the calories and it effects out sleep. I see the changes in my skin the next morning,

Wish us luck!

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As a person with 30+ years working in the alcohol industry, I’m fairly confident that no one commenting here falls within the target audience of their marketing. LOL! :wink:

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I can’t imagine that putting cancer warnings on alcohol would have a significant effect on society. In my state (KY), I don’t recall anything reducing smoking until restaurant bans made it socially difficult.

Moderation in everything, including moderation.

Oscar Wilde

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if you believe the Wine & Spirits industry marketing machine.

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As some folks here know already, I’m in the “my body is a temple” camp, so the news is unsurprising and will have zero effect on me.

Labels no labels. :man_shrugging:

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There are oodles of “foods” sold in convenience and grocery stores and fast food places that I personally think are worse to consume than even regular (light) alcohol consumption. No warnings on those…

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I agree 100%! If we’re going to label dangerous foods, why not the frankenfoods, designed to be hyper palatable and non-nutritious? After all, it’s the cigarette companies that created that niche.

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Everyone’s favorite quantity.

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Does recreational cannabis come with warning labels?

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A recent story in the L A Times testing various cannabis products found unhealthy levels of pesticides.
I recently learned that some tea bags contain microplastics.
Seems everything is unhealthy.

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Definitely should, however… Not legal at the federal level so Congress can’t act to attach a surgeon general warning label.

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Binge drinking is actually worse for you than moderate daily drinking. Not that 3 drinks on NYE is binging.

Like @conmama - was already planning to cut back before this article came out. I typically have 2 drinks on Friday and Saturday and if we go out during the week or are traveling. But I have decided to cut out the drinking at home. It’s for a variety of reasons: calories, sleep issues mainly. I do enjoy the taste of wine as well as some cocktails.

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Not to derail the thread, but I believe the microplastics will eventually be found to be the biggest detriment to our health.

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Lack of exercise is already the biggest detriment to our health and won’t be supplanted by anything we do or don’t ingest. Being very active versus inactive comes with a three fold reduction in all cause mortality. So, an active drinker is much more likely to live longer than a sedentary tea totaler.

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I’d argue the biggest detriment to our collective health is the phone.

Doing a set of 10 bicep curls or whatever and then looking at your phone for 5 mins between sets is not being “active.” :rofl:

Get off the internet.:wink:

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