The chief medical officer tells us we should think before every glass. So why is the drinks industry indulged?As one already in awe of Dame Sally Davies,Britain’s charismatic chief medical officer, I did not hesitate to trial her latest advice. Think first – wine or breast cancer? Result: a glass of increased-breast-cancer-risk (house white) concluded the first experiment, and which was conducted,by way of mitigation, in a melee of similar risk-takers.
An objective cancer versus wine risk-assessment – factoring in age, and family history,fairly a depressing play, no interval and so forth – is tough, or I conclude,to conduct in haste, in a bar where social norms are putting up a death-defying fight against medical advice.
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Source: theguardian.com