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Alcohol and Health

DISCUS on Study Featured by Washinton Post

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

Another Paper Finds Lighter Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death Than Abstainers

Less than a week after we reported on actual research into death rates associated with drinking, The Washington Post reported on a paper published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol & Drugs that estimated mortality. You'll recognize the difference in our terminology. Last week we reported on

Med School Accreditors to Include Nutrition in Requirements

Med School Accreditors to Include Nutrition in Requirements

Beginning with students entering medical school this fall will need to complete at least 40 hours of nutrition education or pass a competency requirement to graduate under new standards adopted by eight of the nation’s leading accreditors, assessors, and medical organizations, Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy

Study: Light Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death from Cancer than Abstainers; Heavy Drinkers, More

Study: Light Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death from Cancer than Abstainers; Heavy Drinkers, More

Someone who has less than three drinks a week is less likely to die from cancer than someone who abstains, a just-released study by researchers with Weill Cornell Medicine and funded by the National Institutes of Health finds. But it also finds that compared to nondrinkers, heavy drinkers – women

The Best Reason for Ingredient Labels on Every Bottle of Alcohol

Put ingredient labels on every bottle of alcohol, says Felicity Carter, the well-known journalist who writes Drinks Insider. She's absolutely right. Why should you put ingredient labels on your product? Because an awful lot of people. spurred by antialcohol zealots, think you load your product with added

Is Cannabis Riskier than Alcohol

While the World Health Organization's claim – echoed by some antialcohol zealots – that one drink of alcohol will give you cancer, everyone who's studied the issue acknowledges that drastic overconsumption, the sort of thing that leads to what mental health people now call "alcohol use disorder,

How the Industry Should Respond to Misleading Attacks

We think it is long past time for the bev/al industry to stop being the punching bag for anti-alcohol zealots masquerading as "public health" advocates. It's happening again, Tom Wark notes over on his Fermentation blog. New York City's Health Department has