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Alcohol – Pouring Death In Your Nerves!!
There is always another side of the coin which always holds a different set of truths and a different picture of reality. Relation of alcohol from cancer is something which belongs to the same situation where two beliefs walk together but are completely different from each other and never meets at any point. Some say consuming alcohol does not cause cancer; in fact, it is even beneficial for health while some are confident about a direct relation between alcohol consumption and cancer.
Well! Whatever is the truth but when a belief is supported by the facts and sincerely done experiments, it becomes a fact. So, here we can’t forget to mention about a publication from the journal “Addiction” in which the famous epidemiologist Jennie Connor (Otago University, New Zealand )describes that how consumption of alcohol directly links to 7 types of cancers mainly including upper aero digestive tract, rectal cancer, colon cancer and even breast cancer.
In the article Jennie Connor explains that how alcohol enters cells and gets converted into acetaldehyde, that can damage DNA. It is a known carcinogen. Frightening thing is that the evidence is particularly strong for mouth cancer, esophagus and pharynx. Besides, the risk of liver, colorectal and breast cancer is also there.
The study rejects the current belief and evidence which says that drinking provides a protection against cardiovascular diseases. So, stop consuming alcohol as it’s an enemy in the skin of a friend which enters in your life and gradually starts overshadowing your health leaving you alone with a risk of seven types of cancers such as:-
According to current evidence, the above-mentioned cancers possesses up to 5.8% share of all cancer deaths in the world. The following link will give a detailed knowledge about the study and its findings.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.13477/abstract
Now take a look at this headline
Alcohol consumers in India face higher health risk, mortality
It’s an article published in THE HINDU which describes the lethal effects of drinking alcohol. It says that 4 percent of global diseases (including cancer) causes due to alcohol.
It also mentions that the risk is higher in the low-income countries such as – India and Zimbabwe and lower-middle income countries like China and Colombia.
We may go to many further examples, journals and news content the crux of the story is – Alcohol is decidedly a risk factor for cancer and until unless we don’t throw out this life-taking addiction from our life we cannot even dream of a cancer-free country.
If you don’t drink, you are in a right direction. But if you are addicted to drinking and after reading this blog trying to find more reasons to announce alcohol safe and even beneficial for health, then decidedly you are on a wrong track which may take you to the darkest side of life where death is the only destination.
It was written somewhere –
‘Life Is Precious, Waste It Wisely’
So, take a decision now and IF possible a SENSIBLE one.
