"If you were thinking of meeting up with friends after work for happy hour, think again.
A new global study from the British journal The Lancet found that the safest level of drinking was none.
Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
The study, published Thursday, analyzed data from the 2016 Global Burden of Disease report to determine levels of alcohol use and its health effects in 195 countries for males and females ages 15 to 49 between 1990 to 2016. Researchers found alcohol use was the leading risk factor for death and disability and accounted for nearly 10 percent of annual global deaths, or about about 2.8 million annually."Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
http://www.milforddailynews.com/zz/news/20180824/theres-no-safe-level-of-alcohol-consumption-study-finds
The Lancet Study says:
"Alcohol use is a leading risk factor for global disease burden and causes substantial health loss. We found that the risk of all-cause mortality, and of cancers specifically, rises with increasing levels of consumption, and the level of consumption that minimises health loss is zero. These results suggest that alcohol control policies might need to be revised worldwide, refocusing on efforts to lower overall population-level consumption."Go to the full study directly at The Lancet
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31310-2/fulltext
The study PDF
https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2818%2931310-2
The NPR headline reads "No Amount Of Alcohol Is Good For Your Health, Global Study Says"
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/24/641618937/no-amount-of-alcohol-is-good-for-your-health-global-study-claims
While The Atlantic headline reads: "A Daily Drink Is Almost Certainly Not Going to Hurt You"
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/08/there-is-a-safe-level-of-alcohol/568531/
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| A new global study published in The Lancet says that no amount of alcohol is good for your overall health. (Peter Forest/Getty Images for Starz) |
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