RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.

In 2018, the Ontario Ministry of Health guidelines changed to 7 to15 drinks a week as "safe". Federal Canadian guidelines are zero.

Alcohol is a great way to control the voters.

My 20s and early thirties are a blur. 2009-2015 is pretty much completely missing from my memory. My 6 year binge (with my overall drinking) might have some presents for me in my future.

I’ve been sober for 2 years but it does scare me that I already did the damage. Oh well I guess. At the time, it was my coping mechanism. I don’t have cravings anymore because now I can clearly see it as poison but the damage might already be done.

As someone who drinks pretty much every day, how much were you drinking??
- It was different every day but the absolute minimum was a 6 pack. That was on a day I had things to do. If I had a day where I had obligations, I’d settle for a six pack with a 6%abv because I could regulate it by the hour because of my body weight.
  On average I was drinking a handle a day. Easy.
  On days I was trying to “regulate myself” I was still drinking 9%abv IPAs.
  Was in it.
  Edit: if you start hiding any of your drinking even in the slightest, it’s time for a life change. Also, all of the above was when I was in my early 30s. In my 20s, I was buying 30 packs of Busch daily
Congrats on your sobriety!
If someone is really lucky they can develop alcohol intolerance like I did. It's a medical condition. I used to enjoy the occasional beer, red wine, bourbon, sake, whatever. I really liked them. Not to excess, except occasionally when out with friends. But it crept up on me slowly— at first the next day became harder and harder, and soon it was later that night, then within hours of having a drink or two, then while I was drinking the first glass... I thought I was just getting old, but it just kept getting worse.
Those "non-alcoholic" beers taste great these days, but they still have <0.5% alcohol. The last time I had a single NA pale ale I had a headache, brain fog, and lethargy for over 24 hours. God help me if I were to have even a lower % IPA now... I haven't tried it in years, but last time I had mild nausea and other hangover symptoms halfway through sipping it. Water, drinking extremely slowly, etc. doesn't help. My body just can't metabolize alcohol anymore.
Of course I don't feel compelled to drink in the same way an alcoholic does, but I do empathize in my own small way with their plight when going out. I want to join in, but I stick to water instead, knowing that a drink would completely wreck me and I'd regret it for days.
This is entirely unrelated to cancer, but I just thought I'd share. Maybe someone is experiencing similar symptoms but doesn't know it has a name.
- I have the opposite problem. I have the mutation that allows my body to crank out massive quantities of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase. So back in the day, I could drink like a fish and almost never suffer a hangover. While this might be convenient in the short term, it greatly increases the risk of alcoholism, since it disables the main feedback mechanism telling you that you're harming yourself.
  Luckily, my mother gave me a chat about our family history (lots of early deaths from alcoholism and alcohol-related suicide and misadventure) and I had recently had some disturbing close-call experiences of my own while drunk, so I quit in my mid-20s. I don't abstain completely, but haven't had more than a couple of pints in a day since. It's been 40 years. For long periods, I had no alcohol at all. I get it that some people can't cut back without abstaining completely, and can't quit without support, but I was fortunate in being able to. If you're trying to quit, do whatever works for you. Not everybody's the same and there's no shame in getting help.
  Incidentally, cirrhosis is just as shitty a way to leave this world as cancer is, so the cancer news is a drag, but other factors already motivated my behavior change.
- That <0.5%, if I understand it correctly, is basically nothing. A cursory search showed that there are a lot of food and drinks that are at around that level. A ripe banana can have 0.4% by itself!
- Is this a known medical condition, alcohol intolerance?
  I know enzymes in the body break down and remove it, and certain people genetically have more or less depending.
  Cultures that have been drinking for thousands of years have more of the enzymes, those that just started have way less like the natives in america and I think australia but idk on that. Basically the entire old world has more of the alcohol metabolizing enzymes from eurasia to africa. Not sure of inuits and far northern tribes but if they milked animals in prehistory they probably fermented milk for kefir.
  Also women metabolize alcohol less than men due to these enzymes.
  So the same amount of alcohol can have wildly more or less pronounced inebriation even before taking tolerance into account.
Congrats on 2 years! Im in a similar boat where I don't remember my 20s either but I got sober around 30 and have been picking up the pieces ever since. Thanks for sharing your story.
Congrats on being sober 2 years! It's not easy.
But the good news is that the longer you abstain from carcinogens like alcohol or smoking, the better your odds become. Each day sober is a day that decreases your risk of cancers from alcohol. Keep doing that (and avoid other risk factors) and your cancer risk essentially drops to the normal baseline governed by your genetics, environment, etc.

Cancer research is woke

Not me I'm built different

This is difficult to read. The redundancies and repetition while never getting to the point.

Seems pretty straightforward to me, especially the section titled “The Alcohol Intake and Health Study’s conclusions, explained”
Their big-picture conclusion: Among the US population, the negative health effects of drinking alcohol start at low levels of consumption and begin to increase sharply the more a person drinks. A man drinking one drink per day has roughly a one in 1,000 chance of dying from any alcohol-related cause, whether an alcohol-associated cancer or liver disease or a drunk driving accident. Increase that to two drinks per day, and the odds increase to one in 25.
Alcohol use is associated with increased mortality for seven types of cancer — colorectal, breast cancer in women, liver, oral, pharynx, larynx, and esophagus. Risk for these cancers increases with any alcohol use and continues to grow with higher levels of use, the study’s authors concluded. Women experience a higher risk of an alcohol-attributable cancer per drink consumed than men. Men and women who die from an alcohol-attributable cause die 15 years earlier on average.
Amid all of the public discourse about alcohol and its health effects, here was a clear and authoritative summary of the evidence that would be most relevant to Americans. It was, its authors told me, consistent with the scientific consensus at this time.
“Nothing we’re saying is all that surprising or controversial to those of us who know the field,” Keyes said.
Alcohol increases your risk of cancer, no matter how moderate your intake. And the risk increases substantially the more you drink.
This administration appears to find that difficult to accept and they are actively ignoring this information.
Ironic, considering Trump famously avoids alcohol.

Eh, virtually everything causes cancer. If responsible drinking brings you joy, I recommend taking these sorts of studies with a grain of salt.

The world is on fire, how many of us are going to live past 60 anyway? How many of us will afford that?

Tbf the study part, which is buried pretty deep in the article, says that having 1 drink per day gives a 1 in 1,000 risk of dying from an alcohol related cause, and 2 drinks per day is 1 in 25. Those are probably significantly more problematic odds than the carcinogenic aspects of eating red meat or even of smoking. Definitely worse than what anyone would guess, even if they know alcohol is bad for you already
Think of all the people who maybe have quite a few drinks on the weekend but wouldnt consider themselves alcoholics by any means, they could have a 1/10 chance (or worse) of dying from drinking without even drinking every day
- People who are shocked to learn that 350-700 alcoholic beverages a year might not be good for you scare me.
Yeah science pffffttt.
Take it with a grain of salt means to be skeptical as if the findings are inaccurate. I don’t believe that to be the case. You can make the best decisions when you’re the most informed, and plenty of you will make it past 60. What if you plan on not surviving just to find out you have decades left? Best to take both scenarios into account, IMO.
If you are against spreading this knowledge, you're probably coping over something.