chrischryseIf I stop drinking does that decrease risk of cancer?
KuchiKopi3-4 drinks per year won’t affect your cancer risk. Unless you’ve been drinking radium or something.
DmianThat’s completely wrong. There’s no safe level of alcohol intake: who.int/…/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumpt…
No safe level of sunlight by the same logic.
Not true, and also a fallacy.
How much sun is good for our health?
Researchers have estimated the duration of solar radiation exposure required in order to obtain the recommended doses of vitamin D. While in spring and summer 10 to 20 minutes in the sun are enough, in the winter months almost two hours would be needed, therefore for the vast majority of the population it is difficult to achieve the optimal values. Every year, studies on the benefits of sunbathing in moderate doses are interspersed with those that confirm the risks of doing it excessively.
Literally just existing breathing is slowly killing you. I couldn’t be bothered to be scared of literally everything I do or not do in the risk it “could kill me” we all die anyways. May as well do it on your own terms.
But the WHO didn't right a report that breathing ages you (because it requires the passage of time), this risking age-related health problems and ultimate, inevitable death.
Which fallacy is the one where you cite a paper that doesn't say what you claim it does?
The optimum level of sun exposure for vitamin D production does not mean that level is "safe." You're trading vitamin D for cancer risk. Your claim about alcohol didn't make any cost / benefit analysis. It was only that there is no safe level. You paid no regard to how small the risks were, only that there was any risk.
You can get vitamin D from your diet or supplements. You can get skin cancer and retinal cancer from the sun.
Oh come on, you don’t have to drink. Drinking is a choice and an easily avoidable health risk.
SirenceExactly. I put on sunscreen indoors and people think I’m being dramatic. Same people ask me how I manage to look almost 20 years younger then I am. Sunlight is poisonous.
Are you my coworker?
I am self employed so unless you secretly live in my office walls I don’t think so.
I might!
Technically yes, but 3-4 drinks per year is such a small amount it’s going to make a negligible difference.
Yep, it’s like saying that drinking communion wine at church is a risky amount of alcohol.
Yeah, when everyone knows it’s really religion that’s cancerous.
OP asked: “will it decrease the risk?”
And the answer is: “yes”.
Now, we can talk all the “but” you want, but that’s what the studies say.
Mattethis is basically not understanding what “risk” means. if you have a 1% risk of developing cancer, and by doing something (ie drinking) you double relatively-wise that risk, it’s still only 2% of risk. would you stop drinking and enjoying alcohol and living a happier life for a mere 1%?
all the numbers I’m using are totally random, but it shows that saying “it increases the risk” although technically correct doesn’t mean shit and it’s just fearmongering and a basic inability of understanding information.
I understand what risk is.
But I also understand that we’re all different, and our bodies and genetics are different, and what can be harmless for you (let’s say, chocolate), may be harmful for me…
So, I’ll go with what the World Health Organization recommends, and it’s to not drink alcohol.
As a non-drinker who has seen the ravages of alcohol abuse in several loved ones, I completely understand the “no level is safe” guideline.
That said, 3-4 drinks per year is far below any measure of alcohol use that is seriously studied, where researchers look at drinking at the “amount per week” level. 3-4 drinks per year is essentially on the level of being a non-drinker.
Sounds like the American equivalent of pot. I brew beer and have customers who drink 50L kegs every week and have for years, try doing that with asbestos and live…
An effect can be observable but still negligible in terms of the actual increase of risk.
How do you know? Do you know OP’s medical records? Do you know if he has a genetic propensity to develop cancer or not?
You can’t generalize in that way without information.
We all know anecdotal cases of people who smoked or drunk heavily and lived long lives. And people who were non-smokers and died young from second hand smoke. You don’t know how your body will tolerate a substance you put in it. Some people can deal with things that other can’t.
So saying “negligible in terms of the actual increase of risk” without actually having all the information about a person is a really bold thing to say, in my opinion.
Change of risk for 3 drinks a year is unnoticeable. You can’t tell it from normal noise.
What if I’ve been drinking radium