The American Association for Cancer Research has sounded alarms when acknowledging that people aged 50 and younger are getting breast cancer and colorectal cancer at alarming high rates for over a decade.

This is a result of drinking alcohol on a steady basis. While death rates have been declining, cancer rates have been increasing.

There has been a rethinking of the health benefits of moderate alcohol consumption, which thought it helped the heart. The researchers recommend reducing alcohol consumption and smoking.

A large British study that followed people over 50 for a decade finds moderate drinking does not help the heart, when compared to occasional drinkers. Even red wine doesn’t make the cut. Everyone needs to lower their alcohol consumption.

Amongst women in their 30s, cancer rates skyrocketed between 2010 and 2019. In addition to breast cancer and colorectal cancer, cancer of the stomach, certain blood cancers and leukemia, melanoma, and kidney cancer rates are rising in young people.

Alcohol adversely affects the microbiome by altering gut bacteria which can increase cancer.

Many people do not understand the risk they take, especially the younger age groups when they get plastered at college and continue drinking into the 20s and beyond.



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