The Horrifying Connection Between White Wine and Skin Cancer

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The Horrifying Connection Between White Wine and Skin Cancer

each drink per day of white wine was associated with a 13 percent increased risk of melanoma.

out of The study followed a whopping 210,252


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Cho believes it is possible that red wine’s antioxidants reduce its damage.

For those of you who were under the impression that drinking the occasional glass of wine is actually healthy, you’re not wrong. Cho acknowledged that some alcohol intake has been connected to reduction in heart disease.

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First of all, getting risk assessment info from a website called PopSugar.com is, well, troubling, though the study did come from Brown. I don’t think a 13% increase is ‘horrifying.’ How about people who smoke have a 6x greater risk of developing throat cancer. People who drink alcohol have a 7x greater risk of throat cancer. People who smoke and drink have a 38x greater risk of developing throat cancer. If you’ve ever seen a death from throat cancer you’d understand the true meaning of horrifying. Head and neck cancers are the worst.

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Shit, guys; it’s Friday night. Maybe pop a bottle and lighten up a bit? neener

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Might there be a correlation between wine drinkers preferring to sit outside during a sunny day with a glass of white wine rather than red?

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Maybe there’s a correlation of all the Rombauer Chardonnay drinkers and use of tanning beds?

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This forum really needs a thumbs up function.

P Hickner

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First, there’s this:

Alcohol consumption has been linked to a number of cancers in humans, including cancers of the head and neck, esophagus, liver, breast and colon, according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute.

Second, who would drink a glass of white wine every day? That’s pretty excessive. White wine is OK and all that but really, the idea is to drink wine (sans modifier) every day.

So not to worry. For example, I’m enjoying a nice wine from Toro at the moment and consequently have no fear of increased melanoma risk.

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At that rate, I’m at about 50,000% chance of getting melanoma.

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damn. Premox and cancer now to worry about.

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My wife drinks 2 glasses per day and sleeps a lot. I think that balances out. [cheers.gif]

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Must be all those Germans*; what do they know?

*On both sides of the Franco-German border.

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Golf clap young lady.

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Most red wine drinkers tend to hunker down in their wine cellars. Not much sun exposure.

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I am not horrified.

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It might not be the white wine. It might be the Brie.
Phil Jones

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Correlation does equal cause and effect. Using a 95% confidence interval, 1/20 “correlations” are due to random coincidence.

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So drink two glasses of red wine for every glass of white wine. Crisis averted.

Bruce

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Even if the results were meaningful, that raises lifetime risk from .025% to .028%*. As humorously pointed out above, there could be other demographic factors involved.

  • That is if you are white. The first time I scanned the heading I thought I read white skin, and thought, “what’s new about that?”
    The risk for (naturally) dark skinned populations is far less.

P Hickner