A meta-analysis of 21 case-control and 11 cohort studies in the International Journal of Cancer found people drinking three or more drinks a day were 22 percent more likely to develop pancreatic cancer. Separately, British scientists rated alcohol the most harmful drug overall.
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How Does Alcoholic Self-Help Group Work? New Book Gives Glimpse
Martha Rosenberg interviews Sid Farrar, editor of Hazelden's reissue of the 1939 Alcoholics Anonymous working manuscript. Bill Wilson sent the draft to 400 people, Farrar says, and the marked-up pages show an early group conscience with no single author.
Food
Light drinking is Okay for pregnant women or not?
A study of 11,513 children found those born to light drinkers were no more likely to have behavioral or intellectual problems at age 5, and scored somewhat better, while children of heavy drinkers fared worse. The authors stress observational work cannot prove drinking is harmless.
Obesity
Pink News: Alcohol Raises Breast Cancer Risk
Alcohol makers are attaching pink ribbons to vodka, liqueurs and pink wines during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, though the National Toxicology Program lists alcoholic drinks as carcinogens. A study of 1,897 women ties drinking to recurrence, especially in postmenopausal and obese patients.
Disease
Drinking Alcohol linked to breast cancer
Following 87,724 postmenopausal women in the Women's Health Initiative, researchers found that one or more drinks a day roughly doubled the risk of lobular and hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, but saw no increase in the far more common ductal type. Type of drink made no difference.
Heart & Blood
Lethal Combo:Alcohol and High Blood Pressure
Researchers in Seoul followed 6,100 adults for 21 years and found that among men with blood pressure of at least 168/100, moderate binge drinkers faced four times the stroke or heart attack risk of nondrinkers and heavy bingers twelve times.
Food
What causes psoriasis? Beer or vitamin D deficiency?
Women in the Nurses' Health Study II who drank five or more non-light beers a week were 2.3 times as likely to have confirmed psoriasis as non-drinkers, a survey of 82,860 women found. Light beer, wine and liqueurs showed no such link.
Food
Drinking alcohol boosts risk of death from cancer
Following 6,291 Korean residents aged 55 and older for two decades, researchers found heavy drinkers were 5.62 times more likely to die of esophageal cancer and 4.59 times more likely to die of colon cancer than abstainers. Among women the difference was not statistically significant.
Food
Teens drinking alcohol face higher risk for breast cancer
A Pediatrics study that followed 6,899 girls aged 9 to 15 found those drinking six or seven days a week were 5.5 times more likely to develop benign breast disease, which can progress to breast cancer, than non-drinkers. Drinking three to five days a week tripled the risk.
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Drinking alcohol common among American youth
A federal analysis of 2006-2008 survey data found that 27.6 percent of Americans aged 12 to 20 drank alcohol in the past month, and 8.6 percent of those drinkers bought it themselves. Rates ranged from 13.7 percent in Utah to 40 percent in some states.
Food
Drinking alcohol raises prostate cancer risk
Duke researchers told the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium that among 334 men undergoing prostate biopsy, those regularly having three alcoholic drinks a week were 2.46 times as likely as non-drinkers to develop prostate cancer. They point to acetaldehyde, a known carcinogen.
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UK expected to raise alcohol price
The UK government is weighing a minimum price for alcohol, and a Commons health committee report is expected to recommend 50p a unit, which backers say could save 3,000 lives a year. Alcohol-related health spending has doubled in under five years to over 2.7bn pounds.
Heart & Blood
Can Alcohol Really Protect Your Heart?
A study reported that men who drank moderate, high and very high amounts of alcohol had lower coronary heart disease risk, but other scientists called it flawed and said it should not encourage anyone to drink more. Dr. Mercola treats it as an example of bad science.
Dining
Alcohol should not be used in caffeine-laced energy drinks
The FDA wrote to about 30 makers of caffeinated alcoholic drinks, giving them 30 days to show that adding caffeine is generally recognised as safe or prior sanctioned, or face action to pull the products. Caffeine is approved in soft drinks up to 200 ppm but not in alcohol.
Nutrition
Alcohol Responsible for 1 in Every 4 Cases of Dementia
Writing in Alcohol and Alcoholism, Jane Marshall and Irene Guerrini estimate one in four dementia cases may be attributable to alcohol abuse, with women especially at risk. Other researchers cited hold that moderate drinking is linked to lower Alzheimer's and vascular dementia risk.
Other Diseases
Alcohol binges early in pregnancy increase risk of infant oral clefts
NIEHS researchers found that Norwegian women who averaged five or more drinks per sitting early in pregnancy were more than twice as likely as non-drinkers to have a baby with an oral cleft, and three times as likely if they binged on three or more occasions in the first trimester.
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