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Keeping Holiday Drinking in Check May Counter Cancer

SUNDAY, Dec. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Though holiday partying often includes alcohol consumption, cancer experts are urging partiers to partake moderately.

"Research shows that drinking even a small amount of alcohol increases your chances of developing cancer, including oral cancer, breast cancer and liver cancer," Clare McKindley, clinical dietician in the Cancer

Prevention Center at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, said in a news release from the center.

"Researchers are still trying to learn more about how alcohol links to cancer," she added. "But convincing evidence does support the fact that heavy drinking damages cells and increases the risk for cancer development."

To reduce risk, experts say, drinkers can do a number of things. First, stick to the recommended serving size. A drink is defined as 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of liquor.

Women should have no more than one drink a day and men should have no more than two drinks a day, according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute.

Try to avoid high-calorie drinks. Many popular alcoholic drinks are loaded with calories, especially those mixed with soda, fruit juice or cream. A one-cup serving of eggnog, a holiday staple, has about 340 calories.

Being overweight or obese is also associated with an increased risk for cancer.

Researchers believe that it is the ethanol or alcohol in beer, wine and liquor that increases cancer risk. Check the ethanol percentage numbers on bottle labels and stay away from 100-proof liquor.

Also try non-alcoholic drinks. For example, for a "cocktail-like" beverage, try club soda and lime, McKindley suggested.

zubber wrote:Well to be fair , the probability of developing cancers from alcohol consumption is just as high as developing cancers from extended cell phone usage , or chronic smoking . But those of you are already addicted , perhaps you can avoid your children from being addicted to them

shafique wrote:
I also prefer the 'platinum' rule: "treat others as they would like to be treated".

Cheers,
Shafique

kanelli wrote:mega-crows feet and cat bum mouth

benwj wrote:

kanelli wrote:mega-crows feet and cat bum mouth

So true

Bora Bora wrote:

benwj wrote:

kanelli wrote:mega-crows feet and cat bum mouth

So true

Mega-crows feet: well those can be gotten by exposure to the sun. The good thing is, they blend in well with the rest of the face that looks like a well used leather handbag.

Cat bum mouth: I came across people who did not smoke and cat bum mouth would have been far better than the smell of cow dung that exploded from that hole under their nose!! Just the other day I had to move waaaaayyy down a counter because the stink that came out of this woman's mouth was so overpowering that it made my stomach flip - and I can assure you it had nothing to do with cigarettes.

kanelli wrote:

shafique wrote:
I also prefer the 'platinum' rule: "treat others as they would like to be treated".

Cheers,
Shafique

Well, people could get carried away with that!

-- Wed Dec 22, 2010 4:55 am --

I just don't get binge drinking and smoking. What's the payoff? Hangovers, apologies for bad behaviour, pickled livers, chronic cough, bad smell, yellow and dull skin, mega-crows feet and cat bum mouth. (oh yeah, and high risk of certain types of cancers)

Bethsmum wrote:ERRRR Bora, it's only 7am in England, you have made BM feel quite ill!

zubber wrote:

drewpeacock wrote:I had a dream!

yes, go on...

shafique wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpu9o4V-L-g

Watch the whole clip - there's an explanation of how Christians chose their holidays (or jump to 2.33) ... and picked ones where you eat to excess!!

(BTW - a glass of wine being good for you was revealed in the Quran - 2v219 - there is some good in alcohol, but the harm outweighs the good)


Cheers,
Shafique