The cancer risk from drinking alcohol is a subject that wine writers tend to shy away from.
In this day and age, when we are better informed than ever before about the risks involved in all kinds of behaviours, it’s a subject we can hardly avoid.
I would recommend anyone who drinks wine regularly to read Dr Smart’s article and draw their own conclusions and make their own decisions.
As we age, we know more and more people who have been afflicted by cancers of various types. Less easy to know is the cause of those cancers, although people who spend a lot of time in the sun and find that later in life they start sprouting skin cancers have a fair idea what caused them.
Another grey area is how much alcohol is safe. We all know of people who have drunk quite a lot of alcohol over many years and suffer no apparent problem. They may be the exceptions, but they’re the ones we talk about over the dinner table when the subject comes up.
The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse and Addiction last year published warnings that even moderate alcohol consumption (3 to 6 standard drinks a week) could place us at risk of developing various types of cancer.
Drinking alcohol produces acetaldehyde in the human body (in the mouth and the blood) and acetaldehyde is a carcinogen. It’s fairly obvious that not everyone who drinks
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