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Nah, I'd prefer to avoid cancer thanks though.

• saiya-jin 8y ago
  From few beers per week? I don't think so. What about the happiness coming from evening spent in intense social bonding?
  • _Schizotypy 8y ago
    Downvote? Cute, does that equate to social pressure to consume ethanol? Any alcohol consumption increases the incidence of multiple types of cancers, the primary metabilite (ethanal/acetaldehyde) causes damage to DNA. I can bond with people over my passion for the sciences, I prefer to avoid increasing my risk of cancers. No NMDA antagonist needed. "The evidence indicates that the more alcohol a person drinks—particularly the more alcohol a person drinks regularly over time—the higher his or her risk of developing an alcohol-associated cancer. Even light drinkers (those who have no more than one drink per day) and binge drinkers have a modestly increased risk of some cancers (3–7). Based on data from 2009, an estimated 3.5% of cancer deaths in the United States (about 19,500 deaths) were alcohol related (8)." https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/alcohol/alcohol-fact-sheet https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/a...
  • _Schizotypy 8y ago
    Just for some added shits and giggles: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/dar.12596 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/dar.12596