Drink Alcohol, Get Cancer
Well, that’s what they are saying. Along with eating red meat [so they want you be a vegetarian], any extra salt intake, and drinking sugary drinks [which presumably includes fruit smoothies?].
Frankly, it’s all a load of bollocks.
One report says “don’t do (a)”, another says “don’t do (b), but do do (a)” and yet another says “don’t do (c) but do do (b)”. It is pretty much all contradictory in one way or another. Just think of it this way - if you don’t die one way, you’ll die another.
But my problem is less with these studies and more with the way they are presented. They are always portrayed as incontrovertible fact - if you drink alcohol and eat red meat, then you will get cancer is the message they give out, whether or it is actually intended. But, really, none of these make a difference. You could follow the guidelines to the letter and yet still get cancer, or not bother at all about it and never get it.
Whether or not they intend it, it is how it is reported and how people interpret it. I am extremely sceptical about all of these types of reports, especially since it has been revealed that the recommended alcohol limit was just a guess. The “findings” from these reports are of no use to the general public, especially announced like this.
The best way to live a healthy life is to take everything in moderation - except moderation itself, of course.
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I think I smell a tax rise coming along soon on these things that are now evil.
But consider that many an aspiring scientist got a doctoral thesis out of this crapola.
Then he/she grows up, becomes a bit cleverer and invents something really worthwhile.