What is the threshold of alcohol intake that poses health risk? A new feature @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... open-access - ThreadSky

erictopol.bsky.social • 61 days ago

What is the threshold of alcohol intake that poses health risk?
A new feature @nature.com
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00729-5
open-access

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mchemar.bsky.social•61 days ago

😳

cznbill.bsky.social•61 days ago

I fear that over the past 45+ days alcohol consumption, at least in the USA, has risen dramatically.

ebs02.bsky.social•61 days ago

I can’t tell you how many times I get told at the golf club that I should stop drinking Diet Coke because it will give me cancer—from a dude on his 4th beer. 🤦‍♂️

webrant.bsky.social•61 days ago

"For men, the lifetime risk of developing one of these 7 cancer types rose from a baseline of about 10 in 100 for those who don’t drink or have less than 1 standard drink per week, to about 13 out of 100 for those who have 2 drinks daily."

minutello1.bsky.social•61 days ago

I don't drink. Lucky for me.

automaton4u.bsky.social•61 days ago

Easier to ways to get high than drinking ethanol.

anneezkauai.bsky.social•61 days ago

I wonder about the impact of all the un-named and unknown chemicals in alcoholic beverages on cancer rates.

foreversideways.bsky.social•60 days ago

Moving around in the US I would say the bigger problem you have is obesity (yes I know alcohol has calories) but hey with the Orange idiot running the show I imagine profits in U.K. alcohol companies will be up. It’s all that’s left for Americans.

isenkeep1.bsky.social•61 days ago

It's all too easy for civil rights and civil liberties to be eroded and ultimately destroyed out of concerns for public health. The drug war has brutalized POC for decades. Don't care for another means to war on the poor and minorities for their good.

el-intrepido.bsky.social•61 days ago

Hummm

meegsjosie.bsky.social•61 days ago

Love it!😂😂😂

ajmjanssen.bsky.social•61 days ago

I really dare to claim, after many years of reading the independent science about the health risks of EMF, that 99% of the world's scientists, MD, and patients, cellphone users and Wi-Fi users, are totally ignorant about the correlation btn EMF from wireless devices, and cancer.
@microwavenews.com

ajmjanssen.bsky.social•61 days ago

What is "moderate"?
How much is "moderate"?
The answer is essential.

victordennis.bsky.social•61 days ago

I’m old enough to know that these studies very often get contradicted over time. Enjoy life.

einspartacus.bsky.social•61 days ago

It might give you cancer, but it might get you laid... I'll take the risk.

akw.bsky.social•61 days ago

What's the threshold of spicy food

huckmucus.bsky.social•61 days ago

Working a RCRA case, in some down time, we were all shooting the shit and this EPA scientist said, if alcohol had been invented in the 20th century, no one would even think about drinking it, it would be a hazardous substance, and treated accordingly. Something about the way she said it, hit home.

freckledcackler.bsky.social•61 days ago

Appreciate that anecdote. I find the idea of "moderate drinking" laughable. I'm sure its real, but when I used to drink, the highest functioning social drinkers no one would ever consider an alcoholic or to be binge drinking, could easily "moderately drink" a week's worth in a day. Easily.

huckmucus.bsky.social•61 days ago

I used to love drinking beer around a fire. All night. But it got to the point where I suffered the next morning, even with a single beer. The EPA scientists words came back to me, along with the idea of killing brain cells, and I decided it just wasn't worth it to me.

p2comics.bsky.social•61 days ago

Eric, thanks for sharing. As a psychiatrist, I definitely learned in medical school that alcohol does increase the risk of cancer. As a moderate drinker myself, something that I’ve been more aware of lately and been actively cutting back.

katheo.bsky.social•61 days ago

So glad I don’t drink.

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