Alcohol and cancer
Written on: Pebrero 16, 2022
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Alcohol and cancer
the news:
EU lawmakers will vote over the next two days on whether to warn Europeans against all alcohol consumption to fight cancer - or only against drinking too much.
The European Parliament will discuss a resolution based on the European Commission's "Beating Cancer Plan", outlined last year. That seeks to reduce environmental pollution, advise on diets and cut tobacco consumption.
EU lawmakers watered down their warning to Europeans over alcohol's links to cancer, stressing only excessive consumption as a risk factor and recommending labels should include advice on moderate drinking rather than a blunter health message.
The European Parliament's resolution is non-binding but could guide new rules from the European Commission, such as those due in 2023 on labelling of alcoholic drinks and possible tax revisions to discourage consumption.
The lawmakers agreed on the need for more cancer screening and curbs on smoking, but alcohol proved a contentious issue in a vote whose results were released on Wednesday.
The original resolution contained a reference to the view of the World Health Organization that there was no safe level of alcohol consumption when it came to cancer prevention and said alcohol consumption was a risk factor for many cancers.
However, a series of amendments passed, rephrasing the WHO reference to say it recognised the safest level of alcohol consumption is none and saying that only "harmful" alcohol consumption should be seen as a risk.
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Here is the oxymoron:
according to the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid, the moderate consumption or red wine is encouraged! (1-2 glasses per day).
Wine contains a high number of microconstituents that act as anti-inflammatory and actually protect our heart!
We must differentiate between fermented alcoholic drinks and distilled ones.
The former have strong anti-thrombotic and cardioprotective actions where the latter have none!
Therefore, we can't have a "policy fits all" approach! Beer, cider and wine have different (i.e. higher!) nutritional value thank vodka, gin etc.
You can read more about this, at the following publications of our team:
Structural Elucidation of Irish Ale Bioactive Polar Lipids with Antithrombotic Properties
Functional Foods and their Implications for Health Promotion (Paperback) (book to be published in June 2022)
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