Reply to Surgeon General Warns of Connection Between Alcohol Use and Cancer

Forum Index » Health and Medicine

Reply to "Surgeon General Warns of Connection Between Alcohol Use and Cancer"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For decades they have been saying moderate drinking is fine and, for some of that period, they said red wine was beneficial to the heart. I am 52 and drink a glass of red wine maybe 2-3 times a week. Probably too late for me.[/quote]

Those studies on red wine being beneficial were called into question years ago. At this point, people who like alcohol tune out the obvious.[/quote]

Yes but I think the evidence is still somewhat more mixed on red wine which is why the French and Italians aren’t dying in droves.  American-style beer, white wine, and all the gin and tonic type stuff has no real redeeming qualities.  [/quote]

Why is red wine better than white? [/quote]

It is not. Red wine is just as bad as any other alcohol. Alcohol causes problems with your health. It does not matter how you ingest it. The pp just likes drinking red wine.

[quote] years, studies have shown a relationship between drinking a moderate amount of red wine and good heart health, but experts say it's important to understand what that means before you prescribe yourself a glass or two a day.

No research has established a cause-and-effect link between drinking alcohol and better heart health. Rather, studies have found an association between wine and such benefits as a lower risk of dying from heart disease.

It's unclear whether red wine is directly associated with this benefit or whether other factors are at play, said Dr. Robert Kloner, chief science officer and director of cardiovascular research at Huntington Medical Research Institutes and a professor of medicine at the University of Southern California.

"It might be that [b]wine drinkers [/b]are more likely to have a [b]healthier lifestyle and a healthier diet[/b] such as the Mediterranean diet, which is known to be cardioprotective," he said.

[b]But you may not even have to drink red wine to get the benefit, Kloner said. Moderate amounts of beer and spirits also have been linked to a lower risk of heart disease.[/b]

It's a common assumption that red wine may be good for the heart because it contains [b]antioxidants such as resveratrol,[/b] which is primarily found in the skin of grapes but also peanuts and blueberries. Some studies suggest resveratrol can reduce cholesterol and lower blood pressure.

"There's a [b]debate about whether resveratrol is really cardioprotective or not,[/b]" Kloner said. "In addition, there is debate about [b]the amount of resveratrol you would need to ingest[/b] to get a protective effect. [b]To get the equivalent of the amount of resveratrol that has been reported to be protective would probably mean ingesting an excess of wine[/b]."[/quote]
https://www.heart.org/en/news/2019/05/24/drinking-red-wine-for-heart-health-read-this-before-you-toast

There has just been a lot of marketing and people like the pp who want to believe what they drink is somehow better vs what you drink. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics