Alcohol and Health

Here's a new cause for alarm: Those moms who for at least the last 40 years have given their kids fruit juice have been setting their kids up for colon cancer in later life. We don't necessarily believe it's so, but there have been

One of the things I really dislike is when people reduce a very complex thing down to some very simple – and it's not true. The World Health Organization's (and other anti-alcohol zealots) "just one drink will give you cancer" falls into the group

Despite what the public hears, it's not just alcohol that is associated with cancer. A just-released study finds that drinking coffee or tea at "very hot" temperatures (defined by the World Health Organization as 149 Degree Fahrenheit or higher) is associated with a three-fold

Women For WineSense (WWS), the national organization for wine education and networking, launched its new Wine and Health educational resource. Developed by National Director of Education Tessa Butterfield in collaboration with retired physician Dr. Edward J. Miller, the comprehensive series provides clear, evidence-based answers to the public’s most

Maybe the World Health Organization has it all wrong. Maybe instead of warning that just one drink can result in you developing cancer, maybe the notoriously anti-alcohol WHO should be promoting the idea that physical fitness + moderate alcohol consumption reduces your risk of dying from all causes. That, at

Yesterday we spent some time analyzing a paper that attempted to estimate the effect of drinking on health. That study, which had been featured in a sympathetic story in the Washington Post, was based on the study funded by the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Preventing Underage Drinking. We asked Amanda