"Almost 30 years after discovery of a link between alcohol consumption and certain forms of cancer, scientists are reporting the first evidence from research on people explaining how the popular beverage may be carcinogenic." Lots of caveats here, but this study is of particular interest for certain Asian populations, and Native Americans.

  • http://twitter.com/mikemcl mikemcl

    A study with a sample size of 10? That lasted 3 weeks?

    “To test the hypothesis that acetaldehyde causes DNA adducts to form in humans, Balbo and colleagues gave 10 volunteers increasing doses of vodka (comparable to one, two and three drinks) once a week for three weeks.” – was this not a way to fund after-work drinks for the chemistry department on a friday?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OKEONAMLFIOS5WI7MPQY6SXBCQ IRMO

    This is how Europeans came to dominate the globe. We can digest dairy. We can digest wheat. And we can break down alcohol faster.   I’m only half kidding.

    • Paul Renault

      You forgot bacon.  It’s all about the bacon.

      /I wonder if all the Germans who wish they were Amerindians (y’know,  after reading all the pure fantasy that Karl May wrote) are rethinking their plans.

      //Not Asian, not ‘First Nation’. So, I’m able to drink Bailey’s!

      • chgoliz

        “Not Asian, not ‘First Nation’. So, I’m able to drink Bailey’s!”

        But why would you want to?

  • http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers

    Too depressing. Need a drink.

  • http://twitter.com/librtee Sasha@librtee

    It’s hardly scientific, but having lived in the grossly drunk nation of Korea for three years, I knew personally at least a half dozen people dying/dead of liver cancer. 

    • http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers

       Korea also has terrible stomach cancer rates because of the saltiness of their diet.