CHEERS everybody! A clinical study inspired by 麻豆传媒 staff has confirmed that 鈥淒ry January鈥� is good for your health.
Our pilot study in 2013 with a London-based team showed that those of us who abstained for a month saw sizeable reductions in blood pressure, cholesterol, weight and diabetes risk. It led to a proper clinical trial by the same team. The results resoundingly echoed our own (see 鈥�Doing Dry January lowers cancer-promoting proteins in your blood鈥�).
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Ominously, the researchers found an unexpected link between drinking and levels of blood factors that can help cancer grow and spread. We need more research to explore the implications. But the results add to mounting evidence of links between alcohol and cancer, evidence the drinks industry and many regular drinkers reject.
The same dismissive reaction to research linking smoking and cancer led to millions of premature deaths. We don鈥檛 yet know definitively that alcohol causes cancers, but as we amass evidence, drinkers deserve to be aware of the possibility. They must make informed personal judgements based on that evidence, not industry propaganda.
This article appeared in print under the headline 鈥淚t truly does pay to go dry鈥�
