Archive for 'Alcohol'
Alcohol in Adolescence: A Cancerous Combination?
Study: Underage Drinking Increases Benign Breast Disease, Breast Cancer Risk When we go to get something checked and the results come back benign, that’s usually a positive prognosis. But if you get a benign prognosis and you’re a teenaged girl that drinks alcohol, a “benign” prognosis may be a bad prognosis. According to a recent [...]
Posted: April 15th, 2010 under Alcohol, Breast Cancer.
Tags: breast cancer cause, breast cancer causes, causes of breast cancer, fibrocystic breast disease
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Fat and Drunk Brings Bigger Liver Disease Risk
How the Amount You Drink – and the Amount You Weigh – Affects Liver Disease Risk Most of us know that when you drink in excess, it not only does a number on your liver, but it does a number on your waistline. Hey, they don’t call them “beer bellies” for nothing. But many people [...]
Posted: March 29th, 2010 under Alcohol, Liver Damage.
Tags: alcoholism liver disease, effects of drinking alcohol, fatty liver disease, liver disease
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Finding the Booze Balance for Brain Health
Too Much, or Too Little, Can Affect Dementia Risk, According to Study In a recent posting, I talked about the importance of moderation in all things and used prostate cancer as an example. How something like alcohol could be beneficial to avoiding the deadly disease when drunk in moderation, but how it can actually increase [...]
Posted: July 26th, 2009 under Alcohol, Dementia.
Tags: dementia alcohol induced, dementia alcohol related, dementia and alcohol use
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Study: Breast Cancer Risk Increases with Each Drink among Women
Cause for Concern Tax season is now past, but this time of year always reminds me of one of Benjamin Franklin’s many popular proverbs, the guarantee that everyone in life would go through two things: death and taxes. While death and taxes are undeniable, when it comes to our mortality, we can all make choices [...]
Posted: April 20th, 2008 under Alcohol, Breast Cancer.
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