Put a Cork in It: Drinking a Bottle of Wine Per Week Is as Bad as Smoking 10 Cigarettes, Researchers Say

Ask your doctor if all these benefits put more pros than cons on alcohol. Unless you doctor is reflexively biased against alcohol.

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Alcohol for these 12 reasons.

Red wine

All the great things studies claim drinking red wine can do:

Ask your doctor if one glass of red wine a day can provide all these benefits

1. Lower the risk of breast cancer.

2. Raise levels of good HDL cholesterol.

3. Be equivalent to an hour of exercise.

3. Give you better sleep quality.

4. Prevent tooth decay.

5. Reduce plaque in your arteries.

6. Make you have fewer colds.

7. Help you lose weight.

8. Give you "gorgeous skin."

10. Aid digestion.

11. Enhance exercise performance.

12. Control Type 2 Diabetes.

13. Help you "chill out."

14. Reduce risk of depression.

15. Give you a longer life.

16. Increase diversity of bacteria in your gut.

17. Fight off cavities.

18. Stop bug bites.

19. Prevent memory loss.

 

 

 

Put a Cork in It: Drinking a Bottle of Wine Per Week Is as Bad as Smoking 10 Cigarettes, Researchers Say

Brittany Shoot 8 hours ago

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If you think a glass of wine a few nights a week can’t be that bad for your health, consider that it could be the healthy equivalent of smoking five to 10 cigarettes. That’s according to a new study published in the journal BMC Public Health, in which researchers looked at how one type of vice that causes cancer—smoking—compared with another.
The research focused on the absolute lifetime risk of drinking one bottle of wine a week. Absolute risk, as defined by the Mayo Clinic, is how likely a person is to develop a condition over their entire life. So for example, on average, American men have a 12% absolute risk of developing prostate cancer, meaning 12 out of 100 will develop the cancer, and 88 out of 100 men will not.

In the case of drinking a bottle of wine every week, non-smoking men’s absolute risk increased 1%, or roughly the equivalent of smoking five cigarettes. In non-smoking women, the absolute risk rose 1.4%, the equivalent of smoking 10 cigarettes, with a 0.8% absolute risk of breast cancer. In other words, depending on an individual’s other risk factors and lifestyle choices related to their likelihood of developing cancer, drinking that much wine could further elevate their risk rate.

The link between cancer and using tobacco products and smoking is relatively well understood, but when it comes to drinking, the study authors noted that the risks of even somewhat moderate alcohol consumption are often a little less obvious to the public.
But that doesn’t mean that drinking alcohol doesn’t have its drawbacks. The National Cancer Institute notes that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lists the consumption of alcohol as a known human carcinogen and accordingly, it is linked to various cancers including those of the breast, colon, esophagus, and liver.