Many of us have enjoyed a small glass of red wine every night thinking that the moderate amount of alcohol would help improve blood circulation and reduces the risk of heart disease. The thought sounds like a conventional wisdom and is supported by many medical studies. While that's still true, what you don't know is the risks or side effects for women.Reported by Washington Post, a new medical study involving nearly 1.3 million middle-aged British women found that a glass of any type of alcoholic drink per day increases the risk of a variety of cancers. More specifically, the researchers found that about 5 percent of all cancers diagnosed in women each year in the United States are related to the result of low to moderate alcohol consumption. Breast cancer is the most popular; accounted about 11% of those cases - about 20,000 cases per year.
Although men are excused by the study, I'm not certain how long it would hold. The findings are not at surprising for both men and women who have liver problems, such as, Hepatitis B - a common disease found among Asian communities. Alcohol consumption is arguably the most common cause of liver cancer. Even for people who don't have any liver disease, alcohol consumption should be avoided, if they find suspicious reactions of their body after consumption of alcohol. The alcohol-induced reactions, such as, red face or red rashes in the chest, are the results of the effort made by liver in its attempt to rid the toxic chemicals from the alcohol.
The findings are not specific to red wine only, but to any type of alcohol. Consider to drink less than a drink or 10 grams per day? Too bad; a dink with as little as 10 grams does not appear to be a threshold.
To find out more, read the article from Washington Post.
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