No offense to fans of wine, beer, and other distilled nectars, it’s now well established that regular alcohol consumption increases the risk of cancer (ENT, esophageal, colorectal, liver, and breast, essentially). No less than 8% of cancers in France, or 28,000 per year, are attributed to it. But do we know how beneficial cutting back on our habits can be? To answer this relatively unexplored question, Korean researchers looked at data from more than 4.5 million Korean health insurance subscribers.
Three times, in 2009, 2011 and 2013, the latter filled out a questionnaire in which they indicated whether their alcohol consumption was low (less than 15 g of pure alcohol per day or about one and a half drinks), moderate (15 to 30 g) or high ( more than 30 g). The researchers compared these results with 80,000 alcohol-attributable cancers reported during this period. This has shown that people who drink…
Source: Le Figaro
