Dr Federica Amati: What Alcohol is Really Doing to Your Body | GREAT MOMENTS
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What insights does Dr. Federica Amati share about alcohol's impact on health?
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Hello everyone, I'm Jamie Lang and this is Great Moments. In terms of chronic disease, so I get it, you know, smoking, not good. Alcohol, sure, yeah, not good. And I want to ask about alcohol, I want to get into that. The other thing, not moving, not exercising, we understand. Those are the sort of ones, they're the big hitters. What are the hidden ones that we don't really know? And what are the unhealthy food habits that we're not sure about as well?
Okay, I think they're the big hitters, but how many people still smoke? would say a lot quite a lot and vaping not safe like is it better than smoking cigarettes sure should we do it no so so like it seems obvious but people still walk around smoking and vaping and so even though that's like the one well everyone knows that one it's like yeah but But have you ever smoked? In the past, I did. My boyfriend smoked.
Did I know what I know now?
No, not so much. And also, I'm not defending this at all, actually. But since then, the smoking ban has come in. Since then, it feels like public health understanding of how bad smoking is has improved. And it's true also that younger people are smoking less now. So statistically, it's a trend, which is great.
And drinking less alcohol.
And drinking less alcohol as well. But, you know, if you look at, so Dr. Helen O'Neill, she's wonderful. She runs Hurtility, which is a... We love her. She's a dream. So her research that she did, women actively trying to conceive smoking was quite high percentage. Hmm. So it's like, we know it, but we don't know it enough. We can still repeat it. Don't smoke. And with alcohol drinking, similarly, it's one of the only things that we ingest, which is a class one carcinogen.
What does that mean?
So it's labelled, it's understood as directly causing cancer by itself. Very few things that we ingest are class one carcinogens, right? A handful, in fact. Alcohol is one of them. The second one is processed meat. So, you know, salamis, pastramis, those kinds of meats. The third one is betel nut, which is very hard. I've never seen it. I've never come across it in the UK, but it's a carcinogen. And the fourth one is Chinese saltfish. Again, I have not come across it, but it's a carcinogen. Those four things are the only things, when you look at this quite terrifying graphic, which is put out by the WHO Cancer Research Group, those are the only four ingestible things that cause cancer directly by themselves.
And yet, alcohol is pervasive. It's everywhere.
That is.
And we advertise it too. It's not just that it's available. We actually have alcohol adverts encouraging us to drink it. Now, you know, on the flip side of that, research shows that having a glass of red wine with your meal could be protective. And some of the centenarians of the world... Do you believe that? Yeah, I do. Because the reason I believe that is because our body is very good at helping us stay alive. And I do believe that having a glass of red wine, but you know, a glass of red wine, no one drinks that. It's like this much. I think a glass of red wine with your family sitting down in the context of a such a minor part of the other greatness that's part of that lifestyle, that it probably just helps people come together and have a moment of like, cheers, great.
So the binge drinking culture we have in the UK is literally killing us.
Yeah, it's directly contributing to the cancers that we see. So especially liver and gastrointestinal tract. So esophagus, mouth, stomach and colon cancer directly. And also one that I think is really not spoken about enough is in postmenopausal women, drinking alcohol is one of the biggest risk factors for breast cancer.
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