No, Moderate Drinking Won’t Give You Cancer

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-07 12:41:04 | Updated at 2025-01-12 05:16:49 4 days ago

No, Moderate Drinking Won’t Give You Cancer
https://www.wsj.com/ ^ | Jan. 5, 2025 | Allysia Finley

Posted on 01/07/2025 4:24:16 AM PST by Jonty30

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has done more to politicize science and erode trust in public-health leaders than anyone other than Anthony Fauci. Dr. Murthy was at it again on Friday with a headline-grabbing report that recommends alcohol be distributed with cancer warnings.

The report warns that, for some cancers, “evidence shows that this risk may start to increase around one or fewer drinks per day.” Note the operative word, may. The link between heavy drinking and throat and mouth cancer is well-established—but not for moderate consumption.

Two weeks earlier the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released a congressionally mandated review of the recent evidence on the health effects of moderate drinking, or up to one drink a day for women and two for men. Its more than 200 pages of findings run counter to Dr. Murthy’s 22-page report, though they got scant attention in the press.

The academies found insufficient evidence to support a link between moderate drinking and oral, pharyngeal, esophageal, laryngeal and other cancers. It did find a slightly higher risk of breast cancer with moderate drinking but also a lower risk of death generally and from cardiovascular disease specifically compared with never drinking.

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1 posted on 01/07/2025 4:24:16 AM PST by Jonty30

To: Jonty30

.....The Food and Drug Administration has announced that saliva causes stomach cancer. However, only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.......

2 posted on 01/07/2025 4:29:40 AM PST by Steven Tyler

To: Steven Tyler

OMG. Really?

Crap. I thought it was Mother’s Milk that did that.

Heh, very well done...I did get a good grin out of your post. Well...on to Pookie’s Toons now for more of that!

3 posted on 01/07/2025 4:37:41 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)

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