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> However, latest available data indicate that half of all alcohol-attributable cancers in the WHO European Region are caused by “light” and “moderate” alcohol
by sh4rks 4y ago
> However, latest available data indicate that half of all alcohol-attributable cancers in the WHO European Region are caused by “light” and “moderate” alcohol consumption – less than 1.5 litres of wine or less than 3.5 litres of beer or less than 450 millilitres of spirits per week
Half a litre of beer a day is considered "light"?
- zabzonk 4y agoit is where i come from - uk. also they don't say how many of those cancers can actually be attributed directly to alcohol consumption. my guess would be few.
- arlort 4y agohttps://www.thelancet.com/article/S1470-2045(21)00279-5/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/article/S1470-2045(21)00279-5/full... > Globally, an estimated 741 300 (95% UI 558 500–951 200), or 4·1% (3·1–5·3), of all new cases of cancer in 2020 were attributable to alcohol consumption
- zabzonk 4y agothat is "estimated"
- amanaplanacanal 4y agoI don’t now how else you would do it. There isn’t any way to tell what caused any individual cancer, as far as I know.
- subpixel 4y agoThat’s one bottle of beer. I’d call that light.
- rco8786 4y agoThat’s basically 1 pint a day, or 16 oz as the ceiling for “light”. That seems reasonable? Not the amount necessarily just the classification.
- marcosdumay 4y agoIf you drink the average every day, you will spend a large part of your days inebriated. And if you don't drink the average every day, you will be deeply drunk every few days. It's completely unreasonable to call that level of consumption "light".
- snozolli 4y agoIf you drink the average every day, you will spend a large part of your days inebriated. You think that a pint of beer will leave you inebriated most of the day?
- zabzonk 4y agowhat on earth do you mean by inebriated? i'd really like to know where all of these people that can't seem to handle a glass of beer, quite probably with something to eat, without freaking out are coming from?
- rco8786 4y ago1 beer is not going to make anybody inebriated for a large part of their day. 3-4 beers will put someone into a good buzz but most will not be “deeply drunk” from that. And again, this is the UPPER BOUND. not the average as you say
- misiti3780 4y ago1 pint of beer will get you drunk - more like your tolerance is abnormally low and your projecting it on everyone else.
- zabzonk 4y agomaybe "not get you drunk"?
- BobbyJo 4y agoBeer in the EU is often ~4% alcohol. Half a liter is barely more than a can of Coors light in terms of alcohol volume.
- ginko 4y ago>Beer in the EU is often ~4% alcohol. Where would that be? German beer is usually 5-5.5%, same for Austria. In Norway it's 4.5-4.7%
- BobbyJo 4y agoFair enough, ~5% would be more accurate I guess. 16 oz at 5% is still a relatively small amount of alcohol in most cultures that historically consume it.
- yread 4y ago"Desitka" ("10" meaning 10 plato degrees of sugar content before fermentation) is very popular in Czech Republic. It usually has 3.5% - 4% ABV. Beer consumption in Czech Republic is about 130l per person per year. That's 0.35l per person per day. It used to be closer to 0.5l but the average ABV % probably went up so alcohol consumption stayed about the same.
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- deafpolygon 4y agoA bottle is 0.33 (or 330ml)
- proto_lambda 4y agoWhere is that? 330ml bottles definitely exist, but 0.5l is the default in Austria.
- zabzonk 4y agouk, at least, but it also comes in 500ml
- deafpolygon 4y agoNetherlands
- proto_lambda 4y agoFrom that quote, I'd say it's the upper limit of what's considered "moderate".
- xxs 4y ago>Half a litre of beer a day is considered "light"? It's very light - in many (most not zero-tolerance) country is legal to drive. One beer is around 0.04-0.05% for a grown up man, around 2h after consumption it should be below 0.02%.