Im back!
Well, I never left, I was just too lazy to update the site. What can you do, eh?
Anyways! to start it off, a really interesting (if somewhat old) article on the flushing of the face from drinking alcohol.
This is particularly interesting to me, as I have on Asian friend who we often made fun of (teenagers eh?) for getting a red face after he had been drinking. So, Kaji, this is for you.
At least two scientific studies have shown that the flushing of the face after drinking can be a sign of “Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma”(Aka gullet cancer, or esophageal cancer).
Heavy alcohol consumption greatly increases the risk for esophageal cancer among such individuals, who comprise about 8 percent of the world’s population, Warren said.
Whats more,
“It is very important for clinicians who treat patients of East Asian descent to be aware of the risk of esophageal cancer from alcohol consumption in their patients who exhibit the alcohol flushing response, so they can counsel them about limiting their drinking,” says NIAAA Acting Director Kenneth R. Warren, Ph.D.
Furthermore,
They said if moderate or heavy drinking people with this deficiency were to become light drinkers instead, 53% of oesophageal cancers might be prevented among Japanese men.
They based their calculations on light consumption being fewer than 25 UK units of alcohol per week, moderate being fewer than 50 UK units and heavy being more than 50 UK units per week.
Raising awareness
In the UK, a unit of alcohol is 8g and the Department of Health recommends men should not drink more than three to four units of alcohol a day, and women should drink no more than two to three.
Further (and more scientific) information can be found
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