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All alcohol has carcinogenic properties. That's just a simple fact. Cancer is bad. Anything that increases our chances of cancer is bad. And considering alcohol
by bena 4y ago
All alcohol has carcinogenic properties. That's just a simple fact. Cancer is bad. Anything that increases our chances of cancer is bad. And considering alcohol has no beneficial qualities when consumed, it's technically all downside.
So while bread may have some alcoholic content, it has other beneficial properties. As does the sun, even though it is a huge carcinogen.
However, I do like to remind people, that while nearly everyone with lung cancer is a smoker, most smokers do not get lung cancer.
So, do what you will with your own body, but know the risks and don't try and downplay disappointing information because you don't like it.
- User23 4y agoIf the State of California is to be believed, basically everything I come in contact with in my daily life has carcinogenic properties. That's just a simple fact. Thus the actual target is to limit contact with carcinogens such that the body can maintain homeostasis. Cancer is a particularly unpleasant and potentially permanent failure of maintaining homeostasis, but that doesn't change the general principle. Also there is a concept called hormesis, which tells us that in some situations being exposed to stressors, which is to say stimuli that temporarily disrupt homeostasis, actually improves the body's overall ability to maintain homeostasis. None of that is to downplay the well known risks of alcohol abuse. It's an avoidable cause of death and disability.
- llamaimperative 4y agoIt seems extremely reductive to say people don’t get positive effects from alcohol. That’s why they drink it!