<p>Just wondering, you ladies out there – if you drink wine, how much would you say you drink per week? Do you worry about the links between wine and breast cancer?</p>
<p>I cannot worry about everything. There is link between other things (mammogram is one of them, being overweight is another) and breast cancer. At least wine does not hurt like mammogram and does not hurt my knees or ankles like weight. So, I will choose wine or harder alcohol or beer. Well, week on vacation is very different from week at home. In non-vacation week, I would estimate maybe 2-3 glasses / week.<br>
Besides, most of us will die of other causes anyway and worrying can cause mental illness.</p>
<p>Agreed re worrying. 2-3 glasses per week. On vacation whose counting? I do not worry about links to breast cancer…</p>
<p>I don’t drink everyday or even every week, & I rotate what I drink, depending where & with whom.
At a club, I usually drink beer or a rye & ginger in the winter- gin & tonic in the summer.
I will have a glass of wine if I am cooking with it ( or with bookgroup), but breast cancer doesnt run in my family- & other illnesses are a bigger concern. ( I also had not heard of links between wine & cancer- although looking at the study, risk only increases with more than 4 glasses a week)</p>
<p>I drink nothing M-F, on S and S dh and I usually split a bottle over dinner, with me drinking a somewhat smaller share of the bottle. If there’s a party I drink more. </p>
<p>I don’t worry about links with breast cancer as there are plenty of other studies showing the benefits of moderate drinking. I can’t keep track of the latest health scares, I believe most food and vices are okay in moderation.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/718086[/url]”>Moderate Drinking in Women Linked to Less Weight Gain;
[Moderate</a> Drinking Lowers Women’s Risk Of Heart Attack](<a href=“http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070523153047.htm]Moderate”>Moderate Drinking Lowers Women's Risk Of Heart Attack -- ScienceDaily)</p>
<p>Used to drink 2 glasses of wine every night we were home for dinner. Now that I am trying to lose weight it is greatly reduced, usually just wine on weekends. My dr said to have red wine as I have very low HDL levels (good cholesterol) and I exercise a lot so needed to do whatever I can to raise it. So…I estimate 4 glasses a week now. I guess I do have qualms regarding my liver but I figure something is going to get me in the end anyway! ;)</p>
<p>I have a couple of glasses of wine every night. I love the stuff. I’m sure it’s way more than the “safe” amount, but so many of these studies go back and forth, year by year, that I just shrug my shoulders and say “whatevah.”</p>
<p>I try to rationalize it with other facts ---- I exercise like a demon, eat right, I’m in great shape, and I could be hit by a truck tomorrow anyway ---- but that’s all it is: rationalization.</p>
<p>As I said, I love the stuff.</p>
<p>I drink 2 - 3 glasses per week. I didn’t know there’s link between wine and breast cancer. And, no, I’m not going to worry about it.</p>
<p>Yes, going down the stairs is my most concern and then there are unreasonable phobias that I cannot control. I have no phobia against wine. The latest discovery is Belgian fruitty beer, very yummy. Anybody else likes it? I started diluting my Bud Light with Pomegranate juice, pretty good but not as good, though much cheaper.</p>
<p>I love wine, and must drink at least 3 or 4 glasses every year. No, I’m not concerned about adverse effects.</p>
<p>I drink what does not give me a head ache, very expensive champagne (family celebrations) or Australian sauvignon blanc, probably 3-5 glasses a week, holidays more, work weeks less. I had not known to worry about breast cancer link…ugh.</p>
<p>I don’t drink at all. And even when I did sometimes have a glass, I could never tell a good wine from a bad so I don’t miss it. While I don’t have to worry about links to breast cancer, I also don’t get the heart benefits of drinking red wine. Life’s a see-saw…</p>
<p>I have never been much of a drinker. I like red wine and when I drink it I enjoy it. I just don’t seem to want it. Also have made a major push to lose weight this past year and alcohol has been the easy thing for me to give up.
If I want to splurge I would go for a toasted onion bagel with both cream cheese and salted butter.</p>
<p>Probably 3-7 glasses a week, depending upon the week. Mostly red. The Million Women Study out of Oxford found that a glass a day of wine increased your risk of breast cancer from 9.5% to 10.6%. I can live with a 1% increased risk, especially because I love wine. And I’m heartened to learn that in the province I reside, we have one of the highest breast cancer survival rates in the world (89%!). I’m more concerned about eating well, exercising frequently and avoiding smoke.</p>
<p>I found this at cancer.org:</p>
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<p>A recent study has shown that alcohol specifically increases the chance of getting certain types of breast cancer:</p>
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<p>I don’t like to drink alcohol, especially wine–it seems to trigger migraines. I did have champagne for the new year–one glass.
Occasionally, once a month or so, I might have a beer. I don’t drink enough to worry about it.</p>
<p>I drink 2-3 glasses of wine per week (on average). I am aware of the breast cancer link, but wine is supposed to be good for the heart and in my family heart disease prevails.</p>
<p>I’m with heyalb (post #7). Guess we folks in CT drink a lot. Whatever.</p>
<p>I only drink wine–sometimes in the summer, I’ll have a beer or a dark and stormy (ginger beer and rum). I’ll have wine with dinner on Saturday night or I’ll have a glass of wine with friends on a Friday afternoon–but I don’t do so every week. Overall, I probably drink 6-8 glasses of wine a month. My mother was a poster girl for abstinence and healthy living (she was into health food in the early 60s) and she died from breast cancer. If I drank more, I’d try to cut down, but alcohol is something that’s an easy thing for me to avoid. Wish I could be as indifferent about chocolate and sugar.</p>
<p>If I drink at all (maybe once a month), it’s white wine. Only one glass because any more than that, I fall asleep! 
I’m not at all concerned about the breast cancer risk, because I figure it’s a wash with the heart benefit.</p>