If I stop drinking does that decrease risk of cancer?

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If I stop drinking does that decrease risk of cancer? - Lemmy.world

I’ve been drinking for 7 years. Typicall I’ve only drank 3-4 drinks a year. If I stop drinking now, would that help decrease chances of cancer? If it does will it take a long time?

3-4 drinks per year won’t affect your cancer risk. Unless you’ve been drinking radium or something.
That’s completely wrong. There’s no safe level of alcohol intake: who.int/…/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumpt…
No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health

The risks and harms associated with drinking alcohol have been systematically evaluated over the years and are well documented.

No safe level of sunlight by the same logic.
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.

ScienceDaily
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.
    Exactly. 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.