Word: alcoholics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there is one health story that journalists love to report, it's the one about the health benefits of moderate alcohol consumption. You can practically hear the editors chuckling "Ha! Here's a vice that's good for you!" No doubt part of their interest stems from the fact that some writers and editors are known to enjoy a drink or two. For the record, I often have a glass of red wine with dinner. But the truth of the matter is that the research on the health benefits of alcohol generally gets a heck of a lot more play...
...time? Absolutely. And it would be easier to take seriously if Honey didn't use every manipulative TV trick in the book--sensationalistic special effects, trumped-up drama, Grand Guignol music--to keep you in planted front of the screen. In words that Homer Simpson once used to describe alcohol, this is TV anointing itself as "the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems...
...news last week about the risk of colon cancer for smokers and drinkers, one of my first calls was to Couric. A study of more than 160,000 colon-cancer patients published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that the cancers of patients who smoked tobacco or drank alcohol were diagnosed an average of 5.2 years earlier than were those of other patients. If you smoke as well as drink, the study suggests, your cancer is likely to be diagnosed almost eight years earlier...
...years How much earlier colon cancers were diagnosed in patients who smoked or drank alcohol...
...years How much earlier such cancers were diagnosed in patients who smoked and drank alcohol...