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NEW DELHI: No amount of alcohol is safe to drink, the WHO has warned. Alcohol, the UN health body says, is a toxic, psychoactive, and dependence-producing substance and a Group 1 carcinogen that is causally linked to seven types of cancer, including oesophagus, liver, colorectal, and breast cancers.
“Alcohol consumption is associated with 7,40,000 new cancer cases each year globally. In European Union, light to moderate alcohol consumption (equivalent to consumption of approximately
Some studies, the WHO concedes, have suggested that light alcohol consumption could have a small protective effect, as measured by the risk of some cardiovascular diseases or type 2 diabetes. However, it adds that no studies have shown that the potential existence of a protective effect for cardiovascular diseases or type 2 diabetes also reduces the risk of cancer for an individual consumer.
“Evidence doesn’t indicate the existence of a particular threshold at which the carcinogenic effects of alcohol start to manifest in the human body,” WHO says.
Alcohol use is among the leading risk factors for premature mortality and disability because of its causal relationship with multiple health conditions.
“Alcohol consumption is associated with 7,40,000 new cancer cases each year globally. In European Union, light to moderate alcohol consumption (equivalent to consumption of approximately
Some studies, the WHO concedes, have suggested that light alcohol consumption could have a small protective effect, as measured by the risk of some cardiovascular diseases or type 2 diabetes. However, it adds that no studies have shown that the potential existence of a protective effect for cardiovascular diseases or type 2 diabetes also reduces the risk of cancer for an individual consumer.
“Evidence doesn’t indicate the existence of a particular threshold at which the carcinogenic effects of alcohol start to manifest in the human body,” WHO says.
Alcohol use is among the leading risk factors for premature mortality and disability because of its causal relationship with multiple health conditions.
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