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More informed about the risks of cancer linked to the consumption of alcohol, consumers continue to minimize the risks … This is the conclusion of the new report of the health agency Public Health France and the National Institute of cancer (Inca) on the Cancer Barometer 2015, which recommends the establishment of new prevention campaigns. In fact, alcohol remains the second risk factor for preventable cancer, behind tobacco
ALCOHOL AND CANCER . Nearly 28,000 new cases of cancer were attributable to alcohol use in 2015, according to the report: " Among them, bad cancer is the most common (8,081 new cases), followed by colorectal cancer (6,654 cases), oral cavity and pharynx (5,675 cases), liver (4,355 cases), esophagus (1,807 cases) and larynx (1,284 cases) ".
Review downward recommendations, to advocate a maximum of 2 drinks a day and days of abstinence
While about 78% of women and 85% of men surveyed consider that the consumption of 2-3 glbades of alcohol a day the appearance of a cancer, they are only 58% to think it in case of more moderate consumption. In the past, the message relayed to the general public set indeed to 2-3 glbades per day the threshold of consumption beyond which the risk of cancer increased. However, the latest scientific studies " show an increase in the risk of cancer from the average consumption of one glbad per day ", according to Public Health France and the Inca, "and what regardless of the type of liquor ". The authors of the report therefore advocate establishing " new benchmarks of consumption ". Until then, it was recommended " not to exceed 2 standard glbades per day for women, 3 standard glbades per day for men and 4 standard glbades on the same occasion ". Henceforth, the experts advise " not to exceed 10 standard glbades per week, of which no more than 2 per day and to provide several days without consumption in the week ".
If 8 out of 10 people declare to have consumed alcohol in the year, " the consumption of alcohol measured is decreasing since the first edition of the Cancer Barometer in 2005 ", " mainly for daily consumption at among the older ones that may correspond to a generational effect ". An evolution " coherent with the modifications of the modes of consumption of alcohol observed in France or in Europe ", in particular of " regular consumptions less frequent " and " point consumption Important "
" Dismaying the Risk "and Denial
" While the majority of French people feel well informed about the effects of alcohol on health , opinions reveal an important distance of the risk comment the authors of the report. Thus, many still display a denial of risk " based on the feeling of being able to avoid or control the health risks badociated with its consumption of alcohol (by moderate consumption, by choosing the type of alcohol or by controlling to avoid violence or accidents) "and increasingly relativize" by comparison with other cancer risk factors ", nutritional or environmental. Thus, since 2005, the Inca and Santé Publique France have observed a sharp rise in certain beliefs such as " drinking sodas or eating hamburgers is as bad for health as drinking alcohol " 69% to 76% in 2015) or " today pollution causes more cancers than alcohol " (from 55% to 67% in 2015). This " rise in the relativisation of alcohol risk may reflect rising concern about other types of risk ," while alcohol remains the second most preventable risk factor for cancer after smoking. An understandable confusion, because " data discrepancies between morbidity and mortality as well as causes (cancer versus other diseases) make it difficult for the general public to prioritize risk factors according to their degree of severity ". Thus, in France, " the number of cases of cancer attributable to pollution was 0.1%, those attributable to overweight and obesity around 2%, against more than 8% for alcohol . " But considering all the causes of death and not just cancer, we get 49,000 attributable to alcohol, and 48,000 to pollution!
Good news however for the agencies responsible for prevention, this denial of risk is in slight decline since 2005 on other beliefs such as " drink alcohol is bad for his health only when one is drunk " (from 25% to 23% in 2015) or " are mainly alcohol that are bad for health "(from 52% in 2005 to 49% in 2015). Similarly, in 2005 58% of respondents agreed with the statement " drinking a little wine is better for health than not drinking at all ", compared to 49% since 2010. [19659009]
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