Low-level drinkers 'have increased cancer and cardiovascular risk'
Research conducted by the Behavioural Insights Team, on behalf of the charity Alcohol Change UK, examined the drinking habits of more than 4,000 UK adults.
It found that people who consumed alcohol within the NHS guidelines had worse health than non-drinkers.
Compared to people who never consumed alcohol, rates of cardiovascular disease increased from 1% to 5%, and for cancer, it went from 1% to 4%.
As we know, the Behavioural Insights Team grew out of David Cameron's Nudge Unit. It could have been called the Respectable Disguises Team, but that would never do. The word 'Respectable' doesn't really work in this context.
On the long list of those respectable disguises under which we assert our own importance, or gratify our own love of meddling in our neighbour's affairs, a moral regard for the welfare of others figures in the foremost place, and stands deservedly as number one.
Wilkie Collins - Man and Wife (1870)
7 comments:
My view on the health benefits of drinking in moderation is that if the sort of people who told us that Covid was going to be a murderous plague are preaching prohibitionism, I can be confident that they are not only wrong but actually lying.
dearieme - we don't drink but I agree, in view of this story we should probably go back to moderate drinking.
Bet they can't measure down to 1% to 4%.
Tammly - I bet you are right.
Probably 1% here, wine with food, much more clashes with meds.
Its amazing that research funded by charities always seems to support the work of that particular charity.
James - sounds about right, they probably can't measure 1% anyway.
Vatsmith - it is amazing, and not at all dodgy of course.
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