It is common that moderate consumption of alcoholic beverages is absolutely harmless, or even useful-for example, for digestion or for the cardiovascular system. On the eve of the New Year holidays, we decided to check whether to justify the health benefits drunk at the festive table.

Usually safe dose alcohol called use No more 40 g of pure alcohol per day for men (equivalent to two bottles of beer, 100 ml of vodka or three glasses of dry wine) and no more than 30 g for women, provided that two days a week a person is completely abstained from alcohol. Supporters of moderate alcohol consumption List The following positive effects. Red wines have a powerful antioxidant effect, prevent the development Cardiovascular And oncological diseases, delay age-related changes in the brain and musculoskeletal system, improve digestion and Introduce The deposition of cholesterol on the walls of blood vessels. Cognac Removes Spasm of blood vessels and helps suffering from hypotension. And champagne excites Respiratory centers, thereby improving lung ventilation, and increases immunity.

The position of moderate use of alcohol, which brings health only benefits, was dominant in the scientific environment for a long time. Back in 2014 Media With reference to WHO, it was argued that there is a certain safe dose, which limited to which you can not be afraid for your health. Russian Ministry of Health back in 2019 Published Calculations for a harmless amount of alcohol. However, even then there was no unanimity in the ministry - against the existence of a safe dose Spoke out Gennady Onishchenko and chief freelance specialist of the Ministry of Health in therapy and general practice Oksana Dipkina.

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In 2018, scientists Bone The results of a 16-year systematic analysis. Residents of 195 countries and territories aged 15 to 95 years were in the sample, in total 592 promising and retrospective studies of the risk of alcohol and 694 sources of data on individual and population alcohol consumption were analyzed. Researchers were not limited exclusively by the diseases themselves, which can provoke alcohol consumption. The analysis included injuries associated with abuse, including accidents, as well as various infectious diseases, the risk of transmission of which can increase along with the use of alcohol.

Scientists have found limited confirmation that moderate use can prevent coronary heart disease to prevent coronet. However, at the same time, the analysis of the data unequivocally showed that any, even the most modest dose increased the risk of cancer. The conclusion of scientists is unequivocal: the only safe for health level of alcohol consumption is zero. Researchers even deduced the dependence of doses of alcohol and the increasing risk of various diseases (such diseases as breast cancer, liver, intestines, liver cirrhosis, pancreatitis, various cardiovascular diseases) were considered. Only one dose of alcohol per day increased the risk of their occurrence by an average of 0.5%, and two - by as much as 7%.

Max Grizpold, one of the co -authors of the study, Commented This is: "The dependence between alcohol consumption and the risk of cancer, the occurrence of concomitant injuries and an increase in the susceptibility of infectious diseases leve the protective effects of alcohol against heart disease."

Research data were taken into account In the Information Bulletin WHO "Alcohol and oncological diseases in the European WHO region. Call to more active prevention ”, published in 2020. In it It is saidthat "in the case of cancerous diseases, a safe dose of alcohol does not exist, regardless of the type of drink, its quality or price." Nino Berzuli, Director of the Department of Countries in the European Bureau of WHO reportsthat “alcohol consumption even in small doses can cause the development of cancer. The use of all types of alcoholic beverages is associated with cancer, while the main carcinogenic substance contained in them is ethanol. ” The WHO was radically revised by a safe dose of alcohol. Now officially safe counts Extremely zero consumption. As for the relative benefits of alcohol for the prevention of coronary heart disease, Dr. Lars Müller, head of the European program "Alcohol and Forbidden Drugs", He thinksthat "physical activity and healthy nutrition will bring an older person much more benefit than drinking alcohol."

Thus, unfortunately, there is no safe amount of alcohol that could be drunk on New Year's Eve. Any portion of ethanol will adversely affect health and will increase the risk of oncological and other diseases to a certain share of a percentage.