{"id":40556,"date":"2026-09-08T21:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=40556"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:07:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:07:24","slug":"briefly-evidence-keeps-piling-up-that-drinking-alcohol-is-a-bad-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=40556","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Evidence keeps piling up that drinking alcohol is a bad risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There\u2019s nothing socially acceptable that\u2019s as dangerous as drinking alcohol. Most people grow up being told to \u201cdrink responsibly\u201d \u2014 and all of us see people abusing this drug in one way or another \u2014 but the truth is that drinking alcohol is always<\/em> a terrible risk. The alcohol in these drinks is toxic and the human liver has to work hard to filter the toxins out. What most people don\u2019t realize is that alcohol is classified as a known carcinogen<\/a> by the World Health Organization \u2014 because of the well-established connection between imbibing and various cancers. Many people have taken refuge behind the idea that light or moderate drinking might be safe, but a new study shows that drinking even one drink<\/a> a day increases the risks of 10 types of cancer. When I was a teen-ager, I looked around and saw the negative effects that this behavior had on a lot of people and decided not to start drinking, so I\u2019ve never even tried this poison. The evidence keeps piling up that I was lucky to have come to that conclusion early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s nothing socially acceptable that\u2019s as dangerous as drinking alcohol. Most people grow up being told to \u201cdrink responsibly\u201d \u2014 and all of us see people abusing this drug in one way or another \u2014 but the truth is that drinking alcohol is always a terrible risk. The alcohol in these drinks is toxic and Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-ay8","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40556"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40562,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40556\/revisions\/40562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}