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World Cancer Awarenes Day 4th February 2024 continuing to raise awareness of this broad and relentless disease, which has many contributing factors. Some of these carcinogenic contributors can be completely neutralised – one such factor is alcohol. The disturbing research emerging over the last 10 years has been irrefutably confirming that alcohol use is associated with 7 major cancer types.
Research as follows;
- Alcohol Directly Causes Cancer, New Study Shows
- How does alcohol cause cancer?
- Alcohol is one of the biggest risk factors for breast cancer (W.H.O)
- No amount of bacon or alcohol is safe, World Cancer Research Fund says
- Raising Awareness of the Link Between Alcohol and Cancer
- Stop Drinking Alcohol = Reduced Cancer Risk: Simple equation isn’t it?
- Alcohol Induced Cancer – a Wake Up Call, which is Good News?
- World-first trial in a breast screening service targeting women’s low awareness of the link between alcohol and breast cancer
- Drinking just ONE glass of wine or pint of beer each night 'may raise your cancer risk by 5%' as scientists warn the safest amount of alcohol is NONE
The key message here is not ‘don’t drink alcohol’. However, the unmistakable take-away from these facts is; if you want to maximise your protection against cancer then not drinking at all is the best-practice.
It’s your call, but please be better informed this World Cancer Day 2024
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Alcohol & Cancer: A ‘Dirty’ Ditty?
Do you want cancer, then drink alcohol.
Or you can slow and not drink at all.
You still get to choose but you’ll need all the stats,
Cause Big Alcohol could not give a ‘rats’!
Cancer’s no fun, not for anyone.
Addiction for profit will just set you up.
Throat, Breast, or Bowel, it could be each one.
But Big alcohol cares little if you’re DONE!
Alcohol and Cancer, who knew it could be?
Most people don’t know, but what of industry?
The harms they continue and Cancer the latest.
Become a non-drinker and upgrade your status?
Alcohol causes cancer, cancer, cancer
Rates with asbestos, ‘Jack the Dancer Advancer’
Throat and
Mouth and
Bowel and
Breast…
Voice box
Liver and
Food pipe to boot…
7 x chances of developing cancers – all with one root!
…Alcohol
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By Dalgarno Institute Research Team
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People who stop drinking alcohol lower their colorectal and breast cancer risk
- Accumulating evidence shows that people who cut out alcohol can reduce their risk of developing some forms of cancer.
- Decreasing alcohol intake decreases the production of acetaldehyde in the body, which in turn, reduces the risk of certain cancers.
- Researchers and experts agree that continuing abstaining from alcohol is the only way to see long-term, positive health effects. (for more Can drinking less alcohol reduce your risk of cancer? (medicalnewstoday.com)
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The role of impulsivity in the relationship between affect and alcohol consumption in young adults
It’s been known, at least anecdotally, for a long time that people hitting the bottle in depression is often, the reality is people are more likely to do so when they are excited or happy. Of course, that may tie into and be tied to, the ‘celebratory’ entrenched stereotypes we have seen around alcohol consumption – champagne, for example, being the cliché image.
Abstract
Background: Theoretical models of alcohol use posit that individuals consume alcohol to ameliorate negative affect or to heighten positive affect. It is important, however, to consider the influence of factors that may determine an individual's tendency to consume excessive amounts of alcohol under positive and negative circumstances. Thus, the current study examined a large sample of young adults to clarify whether positive and negative affect predict total alcohol consumption on drinking days and whether facets of impulsivity moderate these relationships.
Results: Participants were significantly more likely to drink in greater quantities on occasions preceded by higher positive affect but not negative affect. While fun-seeking positively predicted total drinks consumed, there were no significant interaction effects between the BIS/BAS subscales and affect on total drinks consumed.
Conclusions: These findings challenge existing affect regulation models and have implications for ecological momentary interventions aimed at addressing hazardous drinking behaviours.
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The risks and harms associated with drinking alcohol have been systematically evaluated over the years and are well documented. The World Health Organization has now published a statement in The Lancet Public Health: when it comes to alcohol consumption, there is no safe amount that does not affect health.
It is the alcohol that causes harm, not the beverage
Alcohol is a toxic, psychoactive, and dependence-producing substance and has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer decades ago – this is the highest risk group, which also includes asbestos, radiation and tobacco. Alcohol causes at least seven types of cancer, including the most common cancer types, such as bowel cancer and female breast cancer. Ethanol (alcohol) causes cancer through biological mechanisms as the compound breaks down in the body, which means that any beverage containing alcohol, regardless of its price and quality, poses a risk of developing cancer.
(Source: No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health (who.int)