Re:‘Moderate’ drinking guidelines are too loose, study says
by Nursie on Monday April 16, 2018 @04:22AM
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>> there is no known safe level of alcohol.
This is true, but there's no known safe level of a lot of stuff, and there are various known unsafe levels with alcohol.
For instance - while it's true that the absolute safest course of action is not to drink any alcohol at all during pregnancy, it's also true that the risk profile of consuming one-two units per week during pregnancy is negligible.
I'm not trying to defend ethanol here - it is a known carcinogen, it ruins brains and livers and much else - however the tendency for bias and monochrome thinking in this space seems to go both ways.
This is true, but there's no known safe level of a lot of stuff, and there are various known unsafe levels with alcohol.
For instance - while it's true that the absolute safest course of action is not to drink any alcohol at all during pregnancy, it's also true that the risk profile of consuming one-two units per week during pregnancy is negligible.
I'm not trying to defend ethanol here - it is a known carcinogen, it ruins brains and livers and much else - however the tendency for bias and monochrome thinking in this space seems to go both ways.