{"id":29059,"date":"2016-07-29T10:50:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T09:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=29059"},"modified":"2016-07-29T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T09:50:44","slug":"alcohol-has-strong-links-to-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/alcohol-has-strong-links-to-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"ALCOHOL HAS STRONG LINKS TO CANCER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/alcohol.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/alcohol.jpg\" alt=\"alcohol\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/alcohol.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/alcohol-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/alcohol-580x326.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/alcohol-174x98.jpg 174w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent research from New Zealand has found that alcohol can cause seven types of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>A study of existing research found strong evidence of a direct, harmful effect of drinking, even though scientists are unsure of the exact biological reasons why alcohol causes cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the journal <em>Addiction<\/em>, Jennie Connor, from the University of Otago in New Zealand, said alcohol was estimated to have caused about 500,000 deaths from cancer in 2012 alone &#8211; 5.8% of cancer deaths worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Even people who drink at low levels are still at risk of cancer, the study found.<\/p>\n<p>Her finding linked alcohol to cancer of the mouth and throat, larynx, oesophagus, liver, colon, bowel and breast.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;There is strong evidence that alcohol causes cancer at seven sites, and probably others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said that based on current evidence there was no safe level of drinking and the risks were reduced for some cancers when people stopped drinking.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>S.O.Z<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent research from New&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2584],"tags":[2783,2694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29060,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29059\/revisions\/29060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}