A new report on alcohol’s health effects has found even moderate drinking — within the bounds of federal nutrition guidance — could carry health risks, including injuries, liver disease and cancer. The risk of those potential harms, and of dying from alcohol-related causes, increases the more a person consumes.
The findings, released Tuesday, come just weeks after U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory on the links between alcohol and cancer and calling for stronger warning labels on drinks. Another review, published last month by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, linked moderate drinking to lower all-cause mortality but also to an increased risk of breast cancer.
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