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A new report finds that alcohol is to blame for one in every 30 cancer deaths each year in the United States.
While certain alcohol like wine may be good for the heart, it likely to cause 10 times more deaths than it prevents.
Along with breast cancer in women, cancers of the mouth, throat and esophagus were also common causes of alcohol-related cancer deaths in men, accounting for about 6,000 deaths each year.
It stated alcohol may cause damage to body tissues, help other damaging chemicals harm cells, prevent some nutrient absorption, and affect estrogen as well as body weight.
According to the American Cancer Society, it's not entirely clear how alcohol might raise cancer risk. Alcohol might act as a chemical irritant to sensitive cells, impeding their DNA repair, or damage cells in other ways. It might also act as a "solvent" for other carcinogens, such as those found in tobacco smoke, helping those chemicals enter into cells more easily. Or alcohol might affect levels of key hormones such as estrogen, upping odds for breast cancer.
When your statistic is "1 in 30" cant you apply that to anything? I mean I would think anything can affect anything 3ish percent. "1 in 30 cancer deaths are left handed"?
So according to all the news items I've read, everything causes cancer. That's nearly as disturbing as this one stat I read, where it said human beings have a 100% mortality rate
You're going to die and there's absolutely nothing you can do to change that. Keep calm, carry on, enjoy life.
Last edited by Johnbiggs; 02-17-2013 at 12:50 PM..
There are carcinogens that get broken down by most people in the stomach. Some people (particularly Asians) lack this enzyme or partially lack it (either causing them to be totally unable to process alcohol or just less able to do so). I saw studies that linked this thing (the Asian flush) with high rates of throat cancer. Now, other studies tried linking it to drinking hot tea, so there's a bit of reaching for straws.
I'm going to go with the theory that turning red is an indicator of whether you are susceptible to cancer from alcohol until I see data saying otherwise. I turn very pale when I drink, which is a different problem.
When your statistic is "1 in 30" cant you apply that to anything? I mean I would think anything can affect anything 3ish percent. "1 in 30 cancer deaths are left handed"?
Of course and the article or study, whatever pretty much says, could raise the risk of cancer. We have now been warned about eating too much meat, smoking, breathing in unhealthy air, drinking too much coffee, not enough coffee, using pesticides in our garden, buying non organic produce, using cell phones, standing too close to the micro and God only know what else. We also know getting older can lead to death from cancer, stroke, heart desease, diabetes, and bordom....
I think all these studies have some value, but not much: the only statistic I believe is 100% accurate: everyone will die of something, someday..
Of course and the article or study, whatever pretty much says, could raise the risk of cancer. We have now been warned about eating too much meat, smoking, breathing in unhealthy air, drinking too much coffee, not enough coffee, using pesticides in our garden, buying non organic produce, using cell phones, standing too close to the micro and God only know what else. We also know getting older can lead to death from cancer, stroke, heart desease, diabetes, and bordom....
I think all these studies have some value, but not much: the only statistic I believe is 100% accurate: everyone will die of something, someday..
Yep. If you added up all of the things that supposedly take X number of years off of your life, the average person would be dead by the time they're 15. One cigarette? 10 years off your life. A Big Mac? 5 year. Diet Soda? 3 years. The list goes on and on. I'm sure I could eat bean sprouts and tofu every day and live to be 115, but what kind of life would I have lived.
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