Wow, people are really judgmental here. I rarely drink but I used to drink often & honestly I’m way more worried about the chemicals in my food. Obviously regular alcohol intake is bad for you. In a lot of ways. But they use the c word & now everyone cares? It’s always been poison.
I know. Lost several friends to alcohol related illnesses about a decade ago. I guess my point is most things are bad for us & that’s it’s not new info w/alcohol. However a study w/cancer links in a country where so many get cancer worries me in respect to health ins premiums/denials.
Are the people claiming not to understand how a person can have less than one drink per day (on average) while still consuming some alcohol being deliberately obtuse, or does the fact that you can go a day without having a drink really not occur to them?
I’m waiting got the inevitable Fox/ Max/ MAGA reaction:
“They’re banning whiskey. Bring back the speakeasy”
to go with …
“They’re forcing you to buy EV’s”
“They’re banning steaks”
“They’re banning oil”
“They’re taking your gun”
“They’re replacing you”
“They’re poisoning the blood”
Blah, blah, blah
When I go shopping, everything I pick up has a warning that it causes cancer in California. I usually avoid the risk by using it outside of California.
I was gonna "thought we knew this" but it's valuable to know what types of cancer too
Interesting that this is the point where someone in any position of leadership dares try more prevention strategy though
How do you have fewer than one drink a day?
Does this mean having 4oz of alcohol or a 2oz shot of liqueur?
Or two shots of liqueur?
Your headline is very confusing.
It probably refers to average consumption. If you had 2 standard drinks (a shot, a glass of wine, or a beer) over the course of a week, you are averaging less than one drink a day. It’s a way of saying there is no totally safe amount of alcohol to drink.
Some of it if you start young, I drank for 15 yrs and hated every drink except Kahlua or beer . My daughter is 31 and will not drink because she says it t tastes bad lol.
We know this because it is legal for researchers to buy and use alcohol. It has been easier to find large numbers of people who use varying amounts regularly over long periods of time in order to do these long term studies. Fed $ (NIH) can’t be used for weed studies.
US Surgeon General should discuss how all the crap put into our food, clothing, and other items by cost-cutting capitalists is causing cancer BUT in the US corporate profits are valued more than societal health.
One drink per week is less than one per day, but still more than zero. So is one drink every two days, or one drink every three days. That’s the kind of thing they mean.
Alcohol's a poison but less damaging for the psyche than the prospect of a 100 year existence without alcohol (or anything else that takes the edge off unfiltered reality). There were several thousand years of commonsense behind that position. & that took a more holistic view than today's "research"
Oh for goodness sake. We drink far more than the US here in Ireland, UK,Australia and practically every other country in the western world and cancer is no higher per capita....
I was perfectly fit up until 2018. I now have SPG7 which will only get worse, I had a Stroke in 2020. I was very fit and quite sporty. And still it all went wrong. I just enjoy life now. If I die before my time, then at least I enjoyed the last few years of my life.
It's a stark reminder of the hidden costs of alcohol. This re-evaluation of everyday choices can lead to healthier living. Time to rethink that ‘one drink a day’ habit!
1 drink every other day is less than one drink per day (on average) but still more than zero. Same goes for one drink per week or month or any other period of time that is longer than a day.
I'm guess I'm lucky that I found this late enough that I can't find a single comment furious at what this article is suggesting but just about every comment I do see are people dumbfounded that they're seeing so many reactions like that.
every week a new warning bout the evils of alcohol. Today top story in the NYT website. In the NYT last week an article analyzed the data via actual probability given other factors and crunched it down to how many days per amount of drinking shaved off your life. Mine was 2 months. I'll take it.
If you click on it, you can see other photos from the shoot. AI is trained on so many stock photos they tend to have roughly the same values, and the same glossy look, but AI images weren't there by a long shot in 2021.
Ah, France. The country whose wines were beaten by American wines in one blind taste test after another for years, so French winemakers threatened to stop participating in the tests unless the judges started getting told where each wine was made.
Miraculously, French wines started winning again 🤔
I'm thinking the US Surgeon General needs to mind his own fccking business and go back to fccking his wife because teh b!tch is wearing me out. AMIRITE.
hey i still know what words you meant even though you spelled them weird. and those are NAUGHTY words so i’ll thank you to refrain from using them in the future
How are people surprised? We are literally poisoning ourselves because it makes head go spinny. Did you think the poison we ingest won't have a negative effect on our bodies?
fentanyl is more dangerous than alcohol because of its increased risk of overdose. in terms of therapeutic doses, yes, opioids are markedly less toxic than alcohol.
Fewer is a countable quantity. IE: A drink. And it's a pretty common metric used by healthcare workers, too, so much so that one drink has a commonly agreed upon amount across different types of alcohol. I guess I'm not understanding your quibble here?
Absolutely 100%, but they can do both.
"Study shows that even just a few drinks a week increases cancer risk." is the messaging they needed, or close to that.
Sorry to make a deal out of it. I've been a technical communicator for a while now and it tickled me.
I don't care nor do I intend to discontinue my 3 fl oz of red wine every few days. Some things are too awful to contemplate, and life without coffee or wine are two of them.
Deli meat contributes to cancer, cardiovascular disease and inflammation. Alcohol contributes to heart, liver disease, cancer and causes accidents, mental health problems, and they both are terrible for you.
Is there evidence in countries
like Italy that cancer from alcohol is a big issue there? Certainly looks like a very large part off the population live to be an old age.
Why italy?they arent even top ten in europe per capita..one thing they dont have as much as in the U.S is ultra processsed foods...the mediteranean diet is much healthier and probably permits a little alcohol..
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“They’re banning whiskey. Bring back the speakeasy”
to go with …
“They’re forcing you to buy EV’s”
“They’re banning steaks”
“They’re banning oil”
“They’re taking your gun”
“They’re replacing you”
“They’re poisoning the blood”
Blah, blah, blah
Interesting that this is the point where someone in any position of leadership dares try more prevention strategy though
Another photo from the same shoot. Those are the knuckles of a real person. Hmm come to think of it my dad’s kinda looks like those lol
https://stock.adobe.com/images/alcoholic-hands-hold-with-cognac-glass-over-wooden-table-close-upper-view/358390602
Well, not Getty, but it’s a real stock image. Here is another photo from the same shoot
Does this mean having 4oz of alcohol or a 2oz shot of liqueur?
Or two shots of liqueur?
Your headline is very confusing.
Why are you pretending not to know that people feel good when they've had a few drinks?
To assume that a lack of studies on the drug THC somehow indicates an equivalence to a known cancer causing drug like alcohol is crazy.
If being told alcohol is unhealthy makes you mad you may need to examine your relationship with it
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/diet/artificial-sweeteners-fact-sheet
It's a risk associated with the activity.
We all fly knowing that planes can crash but you don't see a huge photo of a mangled 747 on your boarding pass, do you?
Half a drink, a third
NONE
also is less than 1 drink per day
We're all saturated with nanoplastics, and the federal government is about to go offline just as a variety of tipping points are coming at us.
Drink up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/magazine/alcohol-health-risks.html
If you click on it, you can see other photos from the shoot. AI is trained on so many stock photos they tend to have roughly the same values, and the same glossy look, but AI images weren't there by a long shot in 2021.
Miraculously, French wines started winning again 🤔
Am I reading that right?
as communication, it fails
"Study shows that even just a few drinks a week increases cancer risk." is the messaging they needed, or close to that.
Sorry to make a deal out of it. I've been a technical communicator for a while now and it tickled me.
i mean, i almost never eat deli meats... but wow.
Let's drink to our demise. 🍻
I was thinking more like instead of a shot of whiskey each day you could have a tablespoon full each day 😂
like Italy that cancer from alcohol is a big issue there? Certainly looks like a very large part off the population live to be an old age.
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/alcohol-consumption-per-capita/country-comparison/