alcohol and cancer

-
oy vey - another study linking high alcohol consumption to developing cancer
click here for the bbc article

i have some questions about this study though
if they are blaming the sugars in alcohol for affecting our dna resulting in cancers
has anyone studied the effect of other sugars on the cancers?
could not increased cancer diagnoses be blamed on modern society's love of all things sugar? 
when you can't even buy canned vegetables without sugar in them i think that perhaps beer is not our biggest source of sugars
i want a double blind study!
or whatever the proper scientific term is for someone doing research on people who only drink alcohol and avoid other sugars versus the "heavy" drinkers who eat crap as well
additives, preservatives, genetically modified foods - something tells me these must cause more cancers than lovely delicious beer with only four ingredients!

and don't even get me started on the different guidelines for what constitutes heavy drinking in men and women - could we maybe not be so ready to assume that women are tiny and men are large?
a man smaller than me can have 3-4 drinks with impunity?  while i'm only allowed 2-3?
who came up with that math?

more on this another time
because it is something i have spent a fair bit of time contemplating because of the colon cancer that runs in my family...

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

brewing up gender parity

-
Image
My article on gender parity is on the Growler website! BREWING UP GENDER PARITY: THE QUEST FOR BEERQUALITY REBECCA WHYMAN •  JUNE 13, 2019 Women are markedly underrepresented in craft beer. This is not news to anyone. But have you ruminated on just how large the gender gap is?  A 2018 survey by Nielsen-Harris  found American craft beer drinkers are 68.5 per cent male and 31.5 per cent female. Closer to home,  BeerMeBC’s 2018 survey  had those numbers at 71 and 29 per cent, with 0.32 per cent identifying as “other.” For those not so strong in the math department, that means that there are only three women drinking craft beer for every seven men. If you were a straight man looking for a date, you wouldn’t like those odds at all. And I can tell you, as one of those three women, it’s not much fun being outnumbered everywhere I go to enjoy my beloved craft beer, delightful as those seven men may be. Drinking craft beer is the easy part—when we move into the sections of craft
Read more

the end of an era

-
The grandfather of Canadian brewing passed away yesterday. What's Brewing captured a final salute from John Mitchell to the BC craft beer community. Cheers to you, John, for all you've done for the beverage and community we all love.
Read more

label of love

-
Image
LABEL OF LOVE: THE CREATIVE WORLD OF MODERN BEER CAN ART REBECCA WHYMAN •  OCTOBER 15, 2018 Clockwise from top left: Electric Bicycle Brewing Co.; Mikkeller’s Hallo Ich Bin Berliner Weisee; the beer label artwork of Vancouver artist Patrick Wong; Superflux’s Superfluousness. Contributed/file photos You can’t help it, I can’t help it—we all judge beers by their labels, maybe as much as we judge the beer itself. Beer labels have been around for ages: 83 years on cans, and much longer than that on bottles. It appears we’ve been loving beer labels for that whole time—just check out all the vintage labels you can buy on eBay! Doesn’t it seem, though, that we’re loving beer labels extra hard right now? Maybe it’s that size matters. Beer cans, especially those tall boys, offer lots of real estate for labelling. Large-format bottles provide a sizeable canvas as well. Maybe it’s as simple as habituation. Humans aren’t that different from crows; we’re attracted to bright, shiny obje
Read more