The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
it's less than one drink a day and the only evidence I've really seen against the the mild is on the National Cancer Institute site where they like it's one of those cancers where it's like one in 500 like it it it increases your risk of a cancer that you already have a lifetime risk of one in 500 and it's still less than 1% of an increased like to me it's like point you can't you can't measure you can't you can't measure it
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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if we look at cancer with a low lifetime risk such as esophageal cancer in women where the lifetime risk is about 1 in 455 the increase in risk associated with Light alcohol consumption might not be that big of a deal